Connlimit problems and others

["Omar Garcia" <omar.garcia@fractalia.biz>]

Hi list,

I have problems with connlimit module. I am trying to limit the total connections established and other limit above to p2p connections.
My machine is working as a transparent bridge with QoS as follow:


                LAN ------------------------eth1[Bridge]eth0-----------------------------router -------------------------INTERNET

Kernel 2.6.8-1 with POMng , wrr and imq pathed. 
The iptables and kernel modules load perfectly, or it seems.
I have HTB queue to incomming traffic from internet and an imq queue to outgoing traffic.

I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS.
    ( In SHAPER-IN and SHAPER-OUT i have put a few rules for intercept the traffic)

    1- Is correct to put HTB queue to outgoing traffic and an imq queue to outgoing or it´s the oppsite.??????
    
    2- I have put to main rules to intercept the incomming and outgoing traffic.
               For Incomming traffic i put in PREROUTING in mangle chain
                $IPTABLES -t mangle -I PREROUTING -m physdev --physdev-in eth0 -j SHAPER-IN 
        
                For outgoing traffic i put in POSTROUTING in mangle chain
                $IPTABLES -t mangle -I POSTROUTING  -m physdev --physdev-out eth0 -j IMQ --todev 0
                $IPTABLES -t mangle -I POSTROUTING -m physdev --physdev-out eth0 -j SHAPER-OUT

                ( I don´t know why i have to redirect to IMQ and SHAPER-OUT )

        Is correct to put these two main rules there?????????????


    3- The connlimit module doesn´t work with ipp2p module althoug this rule get correctly
        $IPTABLES -I FORWARD -t mangle -p tcp -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -m connlimit --connlimit-above 100 -j DROP

        I am not very happy with this rule because the machines can established a few connections more than i put. 
        I can see over 200 connections cross the bridge in /proc/net/ip_conntrack. 
        Its true that it get a moment that nobody can established a connection, but I donn´t want that, I only want to limit p2p connections and a global limit, but with a high limit to always permit normal traffic.

        And this rule got me an error:

        $IPTABLES -I FORWARD -t mangle -p tcp -m ipp2p --ipp2p -m connlimit --connlimit-above 100 -j DROP
        ( I have put other rules like this but with mark module instead connlimit, and it load correctly).

        Is there someone that had configured a machine like this?
    


    Thanks a lot, i promise to upload a How-to when i finished this long challenge.
    Here are my rules, if someone wants to read them.


      
hain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         
SHAPER-IN  all  --  anywhere             anywhere            PHYSDEV match --physdev-in eth0 

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         
DROP       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state RELATED,ESTABLISHED #conn/32 > 100 

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         
SHAPER-OUT  all  --  anywhere             anywhere            PHYSDEV match --physdev-out eth0 
IMQ        all  --  anywhere             anywhere            PHYSDEV match --physdev-out eth0 [4 bytes of unknown target data] 

Chain SHAPER-IN (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination         
RETURN     all  --  172.16.0.0/24        anywhere            
MARK       udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            MARK set 0x1e 
MARK       udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            MARK set 0x1e 
MARK       icmp --  anywhere             anywhere            MARK set 0x1e 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp flags:!SYN,RST,ACK/ACK MARK set 0x1e 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp flags:SYN,RST,ACK/ACK length 0:128 TOS match !Normal-Service MARK set 0x1e 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            TOS match Minimize-Delay MARK match 0x0 MARK set 0x1e 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp spts:ssh:telnet MARK set 0x1e 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpts:ssh:telnet MARK set 0x1e 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            TOS match !Minimize-Delay tcp spt:ssh MARK set 0x1f 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            TOS match !Minimize-Delay tcp dpt:ssh MARK set 0x1f 
CONNMARK   tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            CONNMARK match 0x1f CONNMARK restore 
CONNMARK   tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            ipp2p v0.7.1 --ipp2p CONNMARK set 0x1f 
CONNMARK   tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            ipp2p v0.7.1 --ipp2p-data CONNMARK set 0x1f 
MARK       all  --  anywhere             anywhere            MARK match 0x0 MARK set 0x1f 

Chain SHAPER-OUT (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination         
RETURN     all  --  anywhere             172.16.0.0/24       
MARK       icmp --  anywhere             anywhere            MARK set 0x15 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp flags:!SYN,RST,ACK/ACK MARK set 0x15 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp flags:SYN,RST,ACK/ACK length 0:128 TOS match !Normal-Service MARK set 0x15 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp flags:SYN,RST,ACK/ACK length 128:65535 MARK set 0x1d 
MARK       udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            MARK set 0x18 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            TOS match Minimize-Delay MARK match 0x0 MARK set 0x17 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp spts:ssh:telnet MARK set 0x16 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpts:ssh:telnet MARK set 0x16 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp spt:www MARK set 0x1a 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:www MARK set 0x1a 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp spt:smtp MARK set 0x1b 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:smtp MARK set 0x1b 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            TOS match Maximize-Throughput MARK set 0x1c 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            TOS match Minimize-Cost MARK set 0x1c 
CONNMARK   tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            CONNMARK match 0x1d CONNMARK restore 
CONNMARK   tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            ipp2p v0.7.1 --ipp2p CONNMARK set 0x1d 
CONNMARK   tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            ipp2p v0.7.1 --ipp2p-data CONNMARK set 0x1d 
CONNMARK   udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            CONNMARK match 0x1d CONNMARK restore 
CONNMARK   udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            ipp2p v0.7.1 --ipp2p CONNMARK set 0x1d 
CONNMARK   udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            ipp2p v0.7.1 --ipp2p-data CONNMARK set 0x1d 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            TOS match !Minimize-Delay tcp spt:ssh MARK set 0x1c 
MARK       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            TOS match !Minimize-Delay tcp dpt:ssh MARK set 0x1c 
MARK       all  --  anywhere             anywhere            MARK match 0x0 MARK set 0x1b