Hi, I am currently writing raw packets to the file descriptor corresponding to a tun device (tun0). My tun device has an ip address of 192.168.1.1 and the packets I write have a source ip of 192.168.1.0/24. I confirm that these packets have been received by the tunnel device using the following ifconfig command which shows that 567 kB (the amount I wrote) was received. All these packet received were either TCP syn packets or DNS queries. # ifconfig tun0 tun0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 inet addr:192.168.1.1 P-t-P:192.168.1.1 Mask:255.255.254.0 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:9427 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 RX bytes:567119 (567.1 KB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Similarly when I run tcpdump -i tun0 I can see the packets written by my process. I did this to ensure that the packets were correctly written. To forward these packets to the Internet I have added a rule in the NAT table to ensure that these packets get NATed on their way out. I have added routing table rules that explicitly route packets from 192.168.1.0/24. I verified this using the command # ip -s route get 1.2.3.4 from 192.168.1.1 1.2.3.4 from 192.168.1.1 via 128.a.b.c dev eth1 cache users 1 However I cannot see the packets written by my process in the logs of any chains. I have enabled logging on all the primary chains -- INPUT, OUTPUT, FORWARD, and all the chains in the nat table -- PREROUTING, INPUT, OUTPUT POSTROUTING, and all the chains in the raw table -- PREROUTING, and OUTPUT. However, I fail to see the packets. I do not know how to determine the place where these packets are being dumped. I have enabled rp_filter in all my interfaces and I am logging the martian packets however these packets are not being reported as martians as well (which is expected). On the other hand if I FORWARD packets received on my ethernet interface to the tunnel interface I can see them being transmitted by my tunnel interface. These packets are received by my process that is reading on the file descriptor corresponding to my tunnel interface. I can also see these packets getting logged in the FORWARD chain. I was hoping that since ethernet to tunnel forwarding is working I should be able to get the tunnel to ethernet forwarding to work. However, I fail to locate the reason and the place where the forwarding fails. I had a look at the tun driver which shows that the rx counters are incremented when netif_rx_ni(skb) succeeds. I am under the assumption that once these packets are received then I must be able to see them in the logs of at least one chain. I would like to know as to why these packets are being dropped. Regards, Ashwin -- 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