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From: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson•com>
To: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole•kfki.hu>
Cc: Hans Schillstrom <hans@schillstrom•com>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter•org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas•de>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash•net>,
	"netfilter-devel@vger•kernel.org"
	<netfilter-devel@vger•kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] netfilter: Add possibility to turn off netfilters defrag per netns
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 08:19:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201201050819.21363.hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1201042232510.3934@blackhole.kfki.hu>

On Wednesday 04 January 2012 22:40:09 Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Hans Schillstrom wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 19:05:10 Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
> > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 12:48:35PM +0100, Hans Schillstrom wrote:
> > > > > I like that idea, an "early" table at prio -500 with PREROUTING.
> > > > > There is also a need for a new flag "--allfrags"
> > > > > i.e. all fragments needs to be sorted out and sent to same dest for defrag.
> > > > > 
> > > > > ex.
> > > > > iptables -t early -A PREROUTING -i eth0 --allfrags -j NOTRACK
> > > > 
> > > > New tables add too much overhead. We have discussed this before with
> > > > Patrick.
> > > > 
> > > > Since this still remains specific to your needs, I think you can
> > > > remove nf_conntrack module in your setup.
> > > > 
> > > > I don't come with one sane setup that may want selectively defragment
> > > > some traffic yes and other not.
> > > > 
> > > > Am I missing anything else?
> > > 
> > > I agree. If you don't want defragmentation at all, then make sure you 
> > > don't load the nf_conntrack module directly/indirectly. Conntrack doesn't 
> > > work without defragmentation anyway.
> > 
> > We are using LXC and it's only in the container that holds the external 
> > interface that can't have defragmentation.
> > The problem is if it's loaded you have it in all namespaces :-(
> 
> Conntrack is per net namespaces. You may have one container with conntrack 
> enabled and another one without conntrack.

How do you disable conntrack per netns ?
I can't see how to do it except for NOTRACK
Then the nf_defrag issue is still there...

> 
> Moreover, if you may receive fragments of the same packet at different 
> interfaces in different blades, then you may receive different whole 
> packets of the same flow at different interfaces/blades. But stateful 
> firewalling relies on the assumption that all packets goes through of the 
> firewall. 
True you can't have stateful fw in that stage because of fragments.
> Because it's not assured, conntrack may not run in the 
> containers you denoted as FW LXC.
Thats why I want to disable defrag and conntrack in them

A single flow, with Containers in any Blade.

    +---------------------------+    /              +--------------------+
--> | FW (no CT)frag  HMARK sel |--->---            | Conntrack and IPVS |---->
    +---------------------------+    \              +--------------------+
            \ (fragments)                                  ..
             v 
         +---------------------------+   /                 ..
         |     de-frag  HMARK sel    |----->  
         +---------------------------+   \          +--------------------+
                                                    | Conntrack and IPVS |---->
                                                    +--------------------+

Note that HMARK makes a preselection of which IPVS to use, and directs the flow
to the same IPVS independent of which Blade/interface it arrives on.
i.e. the defrag:ed packed will reach the same IPVS as the others.
                          
-- 
Regards
Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson•com>

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-05  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-04  8:07 [PATCH 1/1] netfilter: Add possibility to turn off netfilters defrag per netns Hans Schillstrom
2012-01-04  8:28 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2012-01-04  8:49   ` Hans Schillstrom
2012-01-04  9:03     ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2012-01-04  9:32       ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-04  9:47         ` Hans Schillstrom
2012-01-04 17:23           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-01-04  9:49         ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2012-01-04 10:18       ` Hans Schillstrom
2012-01-04 11:17         ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-01-04 11:48           ` Hans Schillstrom
2012-01-04 17:40             ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-01-04 18:05               ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2012-01-04 20:56                 ` Hans Schillstrom
2012-01-04 21:40                   ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2012-01-05  7:19                     ` Hans Schillstrom [this message]
2012-01-05  9:11                       ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2012-01-05 14:18                         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-01-09  8:58                           ` Hans Schillstrom
2012-01-10  3:17                             ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-01-04 20:45               ` Hans Schillstrom
2012-01-04 21:15               ` Hans Schillstrom

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