netdev - Re: [BUG] SNAT sometimes allows packets to pass through unchanged

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Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:58:28 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] SNAT sometimes allows packets to pass through unchanged

Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>> The NAT table only sees the first packet of every connection
>> and never INVALID packets. The mangle table should work fine.
> 
> I ended up adding a rule to the FORWARD chain of the filter table.  
> The trick was to select based on the state.  That worked; it saw all
> those un-NATed packets and was able to eliminate them.  In case you're
> curious, the rule was essentially this:
> 
> iptables -A FORWARD -o eth1 -s 10.0.0.0/8 -m state --state INVALID -j DROP
 >
> Ideally, the rule should select all the packets which haven't been
> altered by SNAT, not just the ones marked INVALID.  Is there any way to
> do this?

Not in the sense that you could somehow catch valid packets "missed"
by SNAT, that would be a bug. The conntrack match supports matching
on whether the state says that a packet should be NATed.
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