linux-kernel - Re: iptables 2.6.38, can kernel erroneously bypass PREROUTING ?

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Message-ID: <20110919012642.GB16718@khazad-dum.debian.net>
Date:	Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:26:42 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Martin Devera <martin.devera@....cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iptables 2.6.38, can kernel erroneously bypass PREROUTING ?

(netdev added to cc)

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Martin Devera wrote:
> we have problem with high-bw router (1gbit, conntrack, nat, htb qos)
> where after some time (weeks) DNAT stops working.
> I tried to include "-t raw -A PREROUTING -i eth0" an it got ZERO hits
> while -i eth1 has many.
> Thus DNAT (in -t nat) doesn't work but interestingly conntrack (and thus
> SNAT records) is ok - packets from eth0 sems to be routed.
> Only they "somehow" skip all PREROUTING chains.. But from sources
> I can find no way how only eth0 pkts could skip PREROUTING but still
> be routed and contracked ... Anyone has a clue ?
> 
> A didn't more investigation as I had to reboot it - it always helps.

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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