Hi Pablo, thanks for helping! On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 01:34:35PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:52:51AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > This confuses me: > > > > (1) Why does the packet end up in the input queue in the first place? > > To me, this looks like the incoming packet on unt381 is not correctly > > tracked by the NAT code. It should be natted and processed by the > > FORWARD chain. > > > > (2) Why are the packet counters of all ctstate rules with helper match > > "sip" at zero? Why don't they apply for the incoming packet which > > seems to fall through until the concluding REJECT rule? > > Because no conntrack entries are getting the sip helper attached. > > > (3) do I need the PREROUTING --jump CT rule mentioned in the Securing > > helpers page if I only use the default Port 5060? > > Yes, the CT target explicitly attach the conntrack helper, so you > need something like: > > -A PREROUTING -t raw -p udp --dport 5060 -j CT --helper sip > > This plugs the sip helper to every new flow going to port 5060. Can I see in conntrack(1) output whether a flow has a helper attached? Is the helper supposed to be attached to the first packet only? I now have: Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT 1909 packets, 445K bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 0 0 CT udp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:5060 helper match "sip" CT # Generated by iptables-save v1.4.21 on Thu Aug 11 13:51:44 2016 *raw :PREROUTING ACCEPT [2022:465365] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [16:4970] -A PREROUTING -p udp -m udp --dport 5060 -m helper --helper sip -j CT and, as you can see, the rule counters are at zero while packets still fall through to the REJECT rule t the end of the INPUT chain. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421 -- 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