Hello,
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008, Julius Volz wrote:
> > Thanks for the info! Right, I even said myself in the previous reply
> > that ip_vs_postrouting() stops further processing in the POSTROUTING
> > chain, so it never reaches netfilter NAT code.
>
> Actually, what if we modify or remove that function to allow further
> processing in POSTROUTING? Could SNAT work with IPVS then?
>
> The comment above it says that the function specifically wants to
> avoid further NAT by netfilter. But is this always a problem?
This check (now flag ipvs_property) was implemented to avoid
netfilter to modify packet which was already changed by IPVS.
What happened was that FTP commands (TCP header and payload) were
modified first by ip_vs_ftp and then by netfilter. The result:
packet with wrong SEQ number. Later, after some Netfilter
changes (2.6.11), TCP payload was modified always in POST_ROUTING
while address can be modified in PRE_ROUTING. Not sure what happens
now, Netfilter code was reorganized and new code review and tests
are needed, may be such double manipulation (if ipvs_property is
not set) still can cause problems.
Regards
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Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
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