Hi Pablo, Thanks. Just had it tested (x64 -> mips and x64 -> x64). Failover is working now. Awesome! On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 2:19 AM Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > *Message sent from a system outside of UConn.* > > > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 01:03:47PM -0700, Tao Gong wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm using conntrackd for firewall failovers. When I examine the > > conntrack table, I found the second firewall (the rule it is syncing > > to) has inverted natdst (or reply_dst) addresses: > > > > Firewall1: > > ``` > > root@OpenWrt:~# conntrackd -i |grep "66.x.25.6" > > udp 17 src=172.25.100.137 dst=66.x.25.6 sport=53093 dport=443 > > src=66.x.25.6 dst=76.y.1.128 sport=443 dport=53093 [ASSURED] [active > > since 7128s] > > tcp 6 ESTABLISHED src=172.25.100.137 dst=66.x.25.6 sport=58033 > > dport=443 src=66.x.25.6 dst=76.y.1.128 sport=443 dport=58033 [ASSURED] > > [active since 7129s] > > ``` > > > > Firewall2: > > ``` > > root@OpenWrt2:~# conntrackd -e |grep "66.x.25.6" > > tcp 6 ESTABLISHED src=172.25.100.137 dst=66.x.25.6 sport=58033 > > dport=443 [ASSURED] [active since 7234s] > > udp 17 src=172.25.100.137 dst=66.x.25.6 sport=53093 dport=443 > > [ASSURED] [active since 7233s] > > root@OpenWrt2:~# conntrackd -c > > root@OpenWrt2:~# conntrackd -i |grep "66.x.25.6" > > tcp 6 ESTABLISHED src=172.25.100.137 dst=66.x.25.6 sport=58033 > > dport=443 src=66.x.25.6 dst=128.1.y.76 sport=443 dport=58033 [ASSURED] > > mark=0 [active since 5s] > > udp 17 src=172.25.100.137 dst=66.x.25.6 sport=53093 dport=443 > > src=66.x.25.6 dst=128.1.y.76 sport=443 dport=53093 [ASSURED] mark=0 > > [active since 5s] > > ``` > > > > Note how the second dst (natdst) is inverted. Surely the traffic isn't > > going through on a failover. > > Is this an endianness bug in encoding/decoding? > > > > Setup: (Yes I'm mixing big and little endians) > > Firewall1: OpenWrt on a x86_64 (little endian), kernel 4.14.180 > > Firewall2: OpenWrt on a MIPS (big endian), kernel 4.14.209 > > conntrack-tools 1.4.5 for both > > It's a bug. Could you try this patch that I'm attaching? -- Best regards, Tao