On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 11:08 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Sunday 2011-05-15 09:23, Andrew Beverley wrote: > > >On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 00:33 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> On Saturday 2011-05-14 18:29, Andrew Beverley wrote: > >> > >> >On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 14:36 +0100, Ed W wrote: > >> > > >> >Okay, I've played around with this myself using a similar scenario. It > >> >looks to me like the packets *are* making it into the conntrack system. > >> > > >> >I tried setting a LOG target to match those packets with a ctstate of > >> >RELATED: > >> > > >> >iptables -A INPUT -p ICMP -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED -j LOG > >> > > >> >And they were indeed logged. But there was no visibility of them using > >> >the conntrack userspace program. > >> > >> Does `conntrack -L` show anything for you at all? > > > >Yes, it shows the outgoing packets: > > > >udp 17 23 src=10.0.10.206 dst=212.110.185.119 sport=35259 dport=53 > >packets=3 bytes=168 [UNREPLIED] src=212.110.185.119 dst=10.0.10.206 > >sport=53 dport=35259 packets=0 bytes=0 mark=0 secmark=0 use=2 > > > >But it doesn't show the "ICMP port unreachable" packets that are sent in > >reply. The question is: should it show them? > > conntrack -L shows pseudo/NFCT-style connections, not packets. Sorry, when I say it doesn't show them, I mean they are not counted. The conntrack entry for that connection only shows a packet count in one direction. It shows zero in the other direction. > As for > ICMP port unreachable, either its classification is > - INVALID, in which case there is no CT to show > - a reply, in which case it is part of the shown CT - and the event > monitor will show an UPDATE > - RELATED, in which case a new CT is shown - and which may disappear > shortly after due to a short lifetime - the event monitor should show > NEW I think. The ones in this case are coming in as RELATED. > > Monitor with conntrack -E for details. > conntrack -E -d 212.110.185.119 gives: [NEW] udp 17 30 src=10.0.10.206 dst=212.110.185.119 sport=35676 dport=53 [UNREPLIED] src=212.110.185.119 dst=10.0.10.206 sport=53 dport=35676 [DESTROY] udp 17 src=10.0.10.206 dst=212.110.185.119 sport=35676 dport=53 [UNREPLIED] src=212.110.185.119 dst=10.0.10.206 sport=53 dport=35676 But conntrack -E -s 212.110.185.119 gives nothing So they do not seem to be counted anywhere. > >> There is/was a > >> short intermediate time when it would not return anything. > > > >Do you mean there was a time when a particular version of conntrack > >would not return anything? > > Yes, see kernel commit cba85b532e4aabdb97f44c18987d45141fd93faa that > (the fix) for details. I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.38.6 just in case, but the same still happens. Thanks, Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html