Re: REDIRECT and IPv6

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

squid3@treenet.co.nz wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Pardon if this is a dumb question. But I have searched the web, and the
> source code for a solution to this one and have reached a brick wall.
> 
> I'm upgrading a user-space proxy (squid3) which has in the past done
> transparent connections under IPv4-only using SO_ORIGINAL_DST.
> 
> The Firewall/router uses iptables and REDIRECT port 80 outbound to port
> 81. All is fine and dandy when squid listens on 0.0.0.0:81.
> 
> With the new code I have to use an IPv6 socket ( [::]:81 ) as the
> receiver. With that getsockopt(..., SO_ORIGINAL_DST, ...) always returns
> err "92 Protocol not supported." regardless of the IP-level parameters
> passed in.
> 
> NOTE: All traffic for testing so far has been from IPv4 clients to what
> they think is an IPv4 server, but with a dual-enabled middleman. The
> 'middleman' Software is iptables 1.3.6 on Debian 2.6.21-2-486 (unstable),
> squid3 built with g++ 4.1.3.


You're right, nf_conntrack_ipv4 only registeres SO_ORIGINAL_DST for
AF_INET, changing that should make it work I believe. I feel like
I'm missing something though ..