Any help?
Thanks
El Vie, 12 de Enero de 2007, 22:00, ArcosCom Linux User escribió:
> Another question, this time is about CONNMARK and MARK.
>
> I stand that when CONNMARK put a mark, this mark will be applied for every
> related traffic (I supose conntrack modules do it) after CONNMARK put the
> mark. Am I in truth?
>
> Analogous with MARK, that only applies to the frame. Is it?
>
> Fine, using the above, when 1 client start TCP connection, that has not
> any specific conntrack module for it, and I use something as this:
>
> iptables -t mangle -A POSTROUTING ${condition} -m state --state NEW -j
> CONNMARK --set-mark 0x1
>
> Then:
>
> iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j
> CONNMARK --save-mark
> iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -m
> connmark ! --mark 0x0 -j RETURN
>
> Can I supose that when the connection is in state RELATED or ESTABLISHED
> the core netfilter will automaticaly mark the response frame (ACK) with
> the same mark? or I must be more accurate using MARK/mark?
>
> Explain a bit the question:
> 1) The frame should be TCP or UDP and is marked as 0x1 when go out from
> (or forwading) the box.
> 2) The frame is responsed (TCP with ACK or UDP with another frame to
> the same source port).
> 3) How netfilter will mark the connection if it has not handled by a
> conntrack module? Will it mark the connection? or I have to control the
> answered frame too?.
>
> I'm a bit confuse with the iptables help/man text about this question:
>
> MARK target v1.3.7 options:
> --set-mark value Set nfmark value
> --and-mark value Binary AND the nfmark with value
> --or-mark value Binary OR the nfmark with value
>
> CONNMARK target v1.3.7 options:
> --set-mark value[/mask] Set conntrack mark value
> --save-mark [--mask mask] Save the packet nfmark in the connection
> --restore-mark [--mask mask] Restore saved nfmark value
>
> CONNMARK match v1.3.7 options:
> [!] --mark value[/mask] Match nfmark value with optional mask
>
> MARK match v1.3.7 options:
> [!] --mark value[/mask] Match nfmark value with optional mask
>
> And, sometimes, I think that there are two fields for the mark, one for
> the whole connection and another for the frame.
>
> Anyone more experienced could explain this a bit?
>
> Thanks!!
>
>
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