Help: Marking UDP packets in a bridge

Help: Marking UDP packets in a bridge

[Aravindhan Dhanasekaran]

Hello,

I'm trying to mark UDP packets entering (or leaving) a bridge, destined to a
particular UDP port on a machine on the other side of the bridge.

My simple topology looks like:
host1 [eth1] <-----> [s1-eth1] bridge [s1-eth2] <-----> [eth1] host2


I've added a rule to the FORWARD chain on the mangle table in the bridge to mark
the packets that I require:
$ sudo iptables -t mangle -A FORWARD -p udp --dport 9917 -j MARK --set-mark 17
$ iptables -L FORWARD -t mangle -v
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source       destination
    0     0 MARK       udp  --  any    any     anywhere     anywhere      udp
dpt:9917 MARK set 0x11


But, looks like none of packets are being marked (counters are all 0s in
iptables output as shown above). I have traffic matching the above rule flowing
through the bridge which I verified using tcpdump.
$ sudo tcpdump -i s1-eth1 udp dst port 9917
...
11:22:14.774417 IP 10.0.0.2.49774 > 10.0.0.1.9917: UDP, length 1470
11:22:14.774597 IP 10.0.0.2.49774 > 10.0.0.1.9917: UDP, length 1470
11:22:14.774731 IP 10.0.0.2.49774 > 10.0.0.1.9917: UDP, length 1470^C

999 packets captured
1831 packets received by filter
795 packets dropped by kernel


I'm not sure what's wrong with my configuration. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
/Aravind

Re: Help: Marking UDP packets in a bridge

[Vigneswaran R]

On 10/10/2014 08:58 PM, Aravindhan Dhanasekaran wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to mark UDP packets entering (or leaving) a bridge, destined to a
> particular UDP port on a machine on the other side of the bridge.
>
> My simple topology looks like:
> host1 [eth1] <-----> [s1-eth1] bridge [s1-eth2] <-----> [eth1] host2
>
>
> I've added a rule to the FORWARD chain on the mangle table in the bridge to mark
> the packets that I require:
> $ sudo iptables -t mangle -A FORWARD -p udp --dport 9917 -j MARK --set-mark 17
> $ iptables -L FORWARD -t mangle -v
> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
>   pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source       destination
>      0     0 MARK       udp  --  any    any     anywhere     anywhere      udp
> dpt:9917 MARK set 0x11
>
>
> But, looks like none of packets are being marked (counters are all 0s in
> iptables output as shown above). I have traffic matching the above rule flowing
> through the bridge which I verified using tcpdump.
> $ sudo tcpdump -i s1-eth1 udp dst port 9917
> ...
> 11:22:14.774417 IP 10.0.0.2.49774 > 10.0.0.1.9917: UDP, length 1470
> 11:22:14.774597 IP 10.0.0.2.49774 > 10.0.0.1.9917: UDP, length 1470
> 11:22:14.774731 IP 10.0.0.2.49774 > 10.0.0.1.9917: UDP, length 1470^C

May be, we should do the packet marking using ebtables (instead of 
iptables) for Ethernet bridge. I am not sure..

vignesh

Re: Help: Marking UDP packets in a bridge

[Anton Danilov]

Hello.

Check sysctl variable bridge-nf-call-iptables. It should be equals 1,
otherwise bridged traffic don't pass iptables.

2014-10-10 19:28 GMT+04:00 Aravindhan Dhanasekaran <adhanas@ncsu.edu>:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to mark UDP packets entering (or leaving) a bridge, destined to a
> particular UDP port on a machine on the other side of the bridge.
>
> My simple topology looks like:
> host1 [eth1] <-----> [s1-eth1] bridge [s1-eth2] <-----> [eth1] host2
>
>
> I've added a rule to the FORWARD chain on the mangle table in the bridge to mark
> the packets that I require:
> $ sudo iptables -t mangle -A FORWARD -p udp --dport 9917 -j MARK --set-mark 17
> $ iptables -L FORWARD -t mangle -v
> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
>  pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source       destination
>     0     0 MARK       udp  --  any    any     anywhere     anywhere      udp
> dpt:9917 MARK set 0x11
>
>
> But, looks like none of packets are being marked (counters are all 0s in
> iptables output as shown above). I have traffic matching the above rule flowing
> through the bridge which I verified using tcpdump.
> $ sudo tcpdump -i s1-eth1 udp dst port 9917
> ...
> 11:22:14.774417 IP 10.0.0.2.49774 > 10.0.0.1.9917: UDP, length 1470
> 11:22:14.774597 IP 10.0.0.2.49774 > 10.0.0.1.9917: UDP, length 1470
> 11:22:14.774731 IP 10.0.0.2.49774 > 10.0.0.1.9917: UDP, length 1470^C
>
> 999 packets captured
> 1831 packets received by filter
> 795 packets dropped by kernel
>
>
> I'm not sure what's wrong with my configuration. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> /Aravind
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Re: Help: Marking UDP packets in a bridge

[Aravindhan Dhanasekaran]

On 10/13/2014 12:08 AM, Vigneswaran R wrote:
> On 10/10/2014 08:58 PM, Aravindhan Dhanasekaran wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to mark UDP packets entering (or leaving) a bridge, destined to a
>> particular UDP port on a machine on the other side of the bridge.
>>
>> My simple topology looks like:
>> host1 [eth1] <-----> [s1-eth1] bridge [s1-eth2] <-----> [eth1] host2
>>
>>
>> I've added a rule to the FORWARD chain on the mangle table in the bridge to mark
>> the packets that I require:
>> $ sudo iptables -t mangle -A FORWARD -p udp --dport 9917 -j MARK --set-mark 17
>> $ iptables -L FORWARD -t mangle -v
>> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
>>   pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source       destination
>>      0     0 MARK       udp  --  any    any     anywhere     anywhere      udp
>> dpt:9917 MARK set 0x11
>>
>>
>> But, looks like none of packets are being marked (counters are all 0s in
>> iptables output as shown above). I have traffic matching the above rule flowing
>> through the bridge which I verified using tcpdump.
>> $ sudo tcpdump -i s1-eth1 udp dst port 9917
>> ...
>> 11:22:14.774417 IP 10.0.0.2.49774 > 10.0.0.1.9917: UDP, length 1470
>> 11:22:14.774597 IP 10.0.0.2.49774 > 10.0.0.1.9917: UDP, length 1470
>> 11:22:14.774731 IP 10.0.0.2.49774 > 10.0.0.1.9917: UDP, length 1470^C
> 
> May be, we should do the packet marking using ebtables (instead of 
> iptables) for Ethernet bridge. I am not sure..

When I added the above rule as a filter to my qdiscs, it worked as expected. So,
I guess my packets were actually marked, just  that the counters were 0.