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From: "p. awa" <pawa@tormail.net>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: tag process's future sockets for iptables rules?
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:34:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1RHeWb-0000Qb-4M@internal.tormail.net> (raw)

i used to do redirection and filtering based on the uid of a packet's
local socket. the point was to transparently proxy an arbitrary process's
outbound tcp connections through tor[1]. it had a nice enough interface:

$ sudo torified-user wget http://example.com/

then i switched to filtering based on gid instead of uid: having only
the gid of regular files created by a process screwed with was less
intrusive. but it is all still a hack that becomes unwieldy when you
need more complex filtering rules.

so i wonder if netfilter provides a facility that would allow a process
to specify tags that are then added onto all sockets/connections/packets
this process and its children create in the future, and to filter based
upon those tags. something like:

| netfilter_add_tag("public-addresses-proxied-via-tor");
| netfilter_add_tag("internal-addresses-directly");
| netfilter_remove_tag("proxy-dns");
| execlp("wget", ...);

plus corresponding iptables rules:

# iptables ... --with-tag    public-addresses-proxied-via-tor \
               --with-tag    internal-addresses-directly \
               --without-tag proxy-dns ...

is there such a thing? of course it wouldn't have to be this interface
exactly, e.g. instead of strings the tags could be bits like connmark's
value/mask. there wouldn't be by any chance a way to to set a "default
connmark value" from inside a process, would there?

please note that i'm only asking about this tagging facility, and not
about the proxying use case above (which is merely a simplified example).

cheers

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TransparentProxy

             reply	other threads:[~2011-10-22 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-22 16:34 p. awa [this message]
2011-10-22 20:43 ` tag process's future sockets for iptables rules? Jan Engelhardt
2011-10-22 23:28   ` pawa
2011-10-23 17:18   ` p. awa
2011-10-23 19:20     ` Nikolay S.
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-22 14:44 p. awa

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