[LARTC] Problem with ipac

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Hello all.

I've tried to set up ipac 1.10 on my Linux router/firewall (Debian) which also performes
traffic control via CBQ.

What I want is to create graphs of bandwidth consumption from Internet hosts to internal
hosts. I don't want to specify protocols, instead I want to count any kind of traffic. But
I want to exclude some hosts from the sum (those on the internal LAN) because there's an
ethernet link with them and I want to count only traffic which comes from the Internet
link (64Kbps Frame Relay).

The network topology is as shown:

   Cisco router (F/R)
         |
         |
         +-- mail server    }
         |                  } public subnet
         +-- www server     }
         |
         | (eth0)
   linux router
(eth4) /   \ (eth3)
      /     \
   internal LANs            } private subnet


Firstly I tried to count incoming traffic on eth0 (rule: from ! public, to all), it worked
well for overall traffic but when I tried to specify destination internal hosts/subnets no
traffic was shown. I realized this happened due to IP masquerading, which is performed on
the Linux router AFTER ip accounting.

So the next thing was to perform ip accounting on internal interfaces (eth3 & eth4). Since
there's traffic between internal subnets through the linux router, I want also to exclude
these from addresses. So now rules are: from ! public internal, to hostA hostB etc.)

The real rule is as follows:

Incoming Testing|out|eth3|all|! 192.168.0.0/16 62.81.192.64/28|192.168.101.162

ipacset -D gives me the following:

/sbin/ipchains --append ipac_out -i eth3 -p all -s ! 192.168.0.0/16 -d 192.168.101.162
/sbin/ipchains --append ipac_out -i eth3 -p all -s ! 62.81.192.64/28 -d 192.168.101.162

62.81.192.64/28 is the public subnet. The fact is that after some testing ipac is counting
internal traffic. I did a ftp transfer from 192.168.101.3 (the linux router) to
192.168.101.162 and it was shown in the graphs (424Kbps, 16Mbytes total, impossible to be
Internet traffic on only two minutes with a 64Kbps link). This computer was not doing any
other kind of traffic at this time.

I think ipacsum does not work well whith parameter '! 192.168.0.0/16 62.81.192.64/28'
which generates two rules. Maybe second rule overwrites first one. I don't find any other
explanation.

My answer is, am I the first one person that has tried something similar until now? Or is
this a known bug? Are there any workarounds? Am I doing something wrong? Why is all of
this so frustrating?

Many thanks in advance.


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                José Carlos Ramírez Pérez

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