Re: SYN packet "disappears"

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On Friday, 28 April 2017 1:08:27 AM AEST Noel Kuntze wrote:
> Am 27. April 2017 07:21:14 MESZ schrieb Kevin <kmg952@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm having trouble changing my iptables configuration to work with a
> >new
> >NordVPN/OpenVPN.
> >
> >In trying to diagnose the problem, I have saturated my firewall with
> >"-j LOG"
> >rules. The problem is that the initial SYN packet to TCP port 22 seems
> >to go
> >missing between the "nat prerouting" and the "mangle input" chains.
> 
> That's where the routing decision is and the rp_filter. It likely drops the
> packets because they're martians. That's a good thing. Fix your routing on
> the host.

That was the problem! I was not aware of rp-filter. As I'm running Fedora I've 
echo'd 2 to the relevant /proc rp-filter files.

Sadly, that hasn't solved my initial problem - but that's not an iptables 
problem.

Thanks for your help - all I needed was that one keyword.

Kevin

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