Hi, Do you have your the subnet mask & default gateway settings on machine 1 set correctly?? You need to receive packets on subnet 10.0.1.0 from 10.0.2.0. If not pls change the subnet mask to 255.255.0.0 & try. ~Kishore AK -- "Dream as if you'll live forever; Live as if you'll die today." On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:15:35 +0530, sridhar kumar kotturu <sridharkumar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Iam using RHL 9, kernel vs 2.4.20-8. > I have two machines. Machine 1 (IP 172.27.22.201) has two IP Aliases. > 10.0.1.1 and 10.0.1.2. > Machine 2 (IP 172.27.22.232) has a IP alias 10.0.2.1. > (IP Alias is created using cmd #ifconfig eth0:1 10.0.0.1) > > I want to send a packet from 10.0.1.1 (m/c 1) --> 10.0.2.1 (m/c > 2) --> 10.0.1.2 (m/c 3). > > In Machine 1, Iam capturing a packet from 10.0.1.1 to 10.0.1.2 at > netfilter hook NF_IP_LOCAL_OUT. First to send the packet to 10.0.2.1 > (m/c 2), I need to send the packet to Machine 2. > For sending the packet to machine 2 Iam doing the following changes > in sk_buff structure of the packet. > > sb->dev = dev_get_by_name("eth0"); > > Previously I captured the object of struct dst_entry * from a > skbuffer of a packet going to Machine 2(for m/c 2 IP. Not to its > alias) . Now, for the currently outgoing packet to m/c 2 IP Alias, Iam > filling the sk_buff field struct dst_entry * with the previously > captured dst_entry * object. > > sb->dst = my_dst_entry; // previously captured dst_entry > > Next Iam doing the following changes in the packet Header. > > Iam adding another IP Header (i.e. IP-over-IP) with src IP 10.0.1.1 > and dst IP 10.0.2.1. Iam changing the protocol field in the outer IP > Header to IP-over-IP value. I changed the total len field and > calculated the new checksum. > Next Iam filling the MAC Header fields. src MAC as the MAC address of > m/c 1 and dst MAC as the MAC address of m/c 2 and type of packet to > IP. > Now iam returning NF_ACCEPT. > > Iam receiving the packet at machine 2. Now I captured the packet at > netfilter-hook NF_IP_PRE_ROUTING. Now I want to send the packet to > 10.0.1.2 (m/c 1). For this Iam changing the sk_buff fields, outer IP > Header fileds and MAC Header fields as before. > Next Iam calling the dev_queue_xmit() to send the packet to machine 1. > > Iam receiving the packet at m/c 1 netfilter hook NF_IP_PRE_ROUTING. > But the packet is *not* reaching the Application. > Why it is not reaching the application ? Whether I need to fill any > other fields in the sk_buff structure. > Iam using i) ping command ii) udp sockets to send packets at the > application layer. > > Thanks n Regards, > Sridhar. > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/