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From: Richard A Nelson <cowboy@cavein.org>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: conntrack-tools rpc helper
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 21:23:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50D90E08.40100@cavein.org> (raw)

I'm having a heck of a time getting this all going ;)

Debian Sid/Experimental
Linux 3.7.1
conntrack toolchain downloded yesterday (stable, not git)

I'm following the doc on conntrack-tools to enable RPC tracking (for NFS 
support), and wind up with this state:
# nfct helper list
{
     .name = rpc,
     .queuenum = 0,
     .l3protonum = 2,
     .l4protonum = 6,
     .priv_data_len = 16,
     .status = disabled,
};
{
     .name = rpc,
     .queuenum = 0,
     .l3protonum = 2,
     .l4protonum = 17,
     .priv_data_len = 16,
     .status = disabled,
};

Why disabled?  conntrackd startup went fine, the nfct helper add went fine, what 
am I missing ?

And, of course, it doesn't work ;)

I may be royally screwed anyway - due to the bizarre situation I'm trying to 
support...
LAN:  192.168/16 - mix of Linux, Windows, and AIX clients
Gateway: 192.168.1.205 (Linux Gateway/Firewall)
OpenConnect VPN to work (CISCO ASA client) - IBM
IBM network - GSA NFS Servers

The sticky point for a statefull firewall seems to be twofold:
1) AIX (at least 5.3) still does RPC mount lookups - even if NFSV4 and port=2049 
are specified
     Which, it seems, is totally needless

2) The GSA infrastructure is layered, and littered with High Availability & load 
balancing - but seems to break
     extant rules...
- My LAN client does a RPC GETPORT (MOUNT -V3) to snjgsa.sanjose.ibm.com
- My firewall NATs the request
- The GSA mainline server delegates (forwards, whatever) to a disk sever
- The disk server (snjxgsasd2.sanjose.ibm.com) replies the RCP GETPORT request

At this point, we have two streams, with matching ports, but differing IP sets, 
both in UNREPLIED status.

I am not at all sure, that even were I to get the RPC helper going, and it 
issues and EXPECT, that things will work, but am willing to hack to make it so :)


-- 
Rick Nelson
Life'll kill ya                         -- Warren Zevon
Then you'll be dead                     -- Life'll kill ya


             reply	other threads:[~2012-12-25  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-25  2:23 Richard A Nelson [this message]
2012-12-25  3:11 ` conntrack-tools rpc helper Richard A Nelson
2012-12-26 22:43 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-27  0:36   ` Richard A Nelson

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