What about this (only for one side ;) ):
Suppose we are on LAN A:
In the table mangle chain PREROUTING mark all packets coming in over
the LAN device and destined for 172.30.13.0/24 and sourced from
172.30.12.0/24 for example with 1.
Then IPSec handles the packets.
In table mangle chain POSTROUTING mark all packets with AH/ESP
outgoing over the internet device and destined for the routable IP of
LAN B with 1. Don't know if they are marked twice with 1 but that's no
problem. So we can be sure all IPSec packets are marked with 1.
Then you can apply the filters in the schedulers for the appropriate
marks on the appropriate device in this case the internet device.
So we can prioritize outgoing packets.
Incoming should also be prioritized. So both directions get their
priorities.
So in table mangle chain PREROUTING mark all AH/ESP packets coming in
over the internet device and sourced from the routable IP of LAN B
with 1.
Then IPSec handles the packets.
In table mangle chain POSTROUTING mark all packets destinded for
172.30.12.0/24 and sourced from 172.30.12.0/24 and going out over the
LAN device with 1.
Then apply the filters for the marks in the schedulers of the LAN device.
This way IPSec should be prioritized in both directions on one router.
If it works you can do it with canged addresses on the other one.
Don't know if it really works, because it's now 3am and I'm a bit
confused and IPSec is already complex standalone ;).
But afaik every net device gets schedulers no matter if physical or
virtual so it normally should be no problem.
Daniel (and others) thank you for the reply. However I think you have
(re)touched on the QoS / Prioritization of IPSec (IP/ESP) traffic verses
regular internet bound traffic. I am after how to prioritize just the
subset of the traffic from Lan A (or B) that is destined to the other
side. More specifically I will be having SSH (interactive sessions
only) / Telnet, Terminal Services (RDP), VNC (RFB), ICMP, SMB/CIFS, FTP
/ SCP (bulk data transfer), RSYNC, LPD, etc traffic from one LAN
destined to the other LAN through a VPN that has a finite amount of
bandwidth (128 kbps DSL (768/128)) which will spend a good deal of time
saturated with all of the traffic going through it. Thus I want to
prioritize that interactive services, i.e. SSH / Telnet, RDP, VNC, and
ICMP, send their traffic through the VPN *BEFORE* any of the bulk data
transfer services thus hopefully yielding what will appear to be a
fairly responsive circuit. Seeing as how all of this traffic is going
to be encapsulated with in the IPSec VPN and thus becoming IP/ESP
traffic I can not just prioritize the IP/ESP traffic on the egress of
the external interface of the router. Naturally I will prioritize like
you have suggested to make sure that VPN traffic will have priority over
general web traffic on the external interface of the router. However as
I understand it there is no ""egressing interface for the traffic that
will be encapsulated *BEFORE* it does become encapsulated thus putting
all afore mentioned VPN traffic in one priority level.
Here is a brief description of how I want to prioritize the traffic that
will be leaving any of the LANs. There will be more LANs down the road,
each of which will (for now) have equal priority with each other. I
will be denoting Priority Groups (PgN) as well as sub groups (sN). All
VPN traffic from one LAN to another will be a Priority Group 1 with all
other traffic from the sending LAN being a Priority Group 2 or lower.
The only possible exception to this will be ICMP and similar traffic.
Pg1s1: ICMP destined to other LANs (IP/ESP)
Pg1s2: SSH / Telnet / RDP / RFB destined to other LANs (IP/ESP)
Pg1s3: LPD / SMB / CIFS destined to other LANs (IP/ESP)
Pg1s4: FTP / RSYNC / SCP destined to other LANs (IP/ESP)
Pg1s5: (unused as of yet) destined to other LANs (IP/ESP)
Pg2s1: ICMP destined to the world at large.
Pg2s2: SSH / Telnet / RDP / RFB destined to the world at large.
Pg2s3: LPD / SMB / CIFS destined to the world at large.
Pg2s4: FTP / RSYNC / SCP destined to the world at large.
Pg2s5: (unused as of yet) destined to the world at large.
I want any traffic that is in Priority Group 1 (IPSec VPN traffic) to be
sent out the internet connection first. I also want Priority Group 1s
traffic to be prioritized based on the sub group priority. However as
IP/ESP traffic is encapsulated and can thus not be prioritized on egress
of the external interface it has to be prioritized before it is
encapsulated. Here in lies the problem. Where / how do I prioritize
this traffic to the appropriate sub group priority.
Grant. . . .
