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Re: Bug or "feature"?

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Subject: Re: Bug or "feature"?
From: Dean Holland <dean.holland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:42:03 +0800
We are using the patch from the following URL:

http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/nfct/

which adds the netfilter conntrack entries for LVS-NAT or LVS-DR with
the director as the gateway (which is the setup I run here).


On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 19:52 +0000, Malcolm Turnbull wrote:
> 
> I think LVS uses the INPUT and OUTPUT chain rather than FORWARD
> which is why its not recommended to be used as a firewall as well.
> 
> I could be wrong as usual.....
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Malcolm Turnbull.
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> 
> Klavs Klavsen wrote:
> 
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> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I am running LVS with NAT setup (kernel 2.4.27) and have noticed a
> > serious problem (with how it works with Netfilter) which I wanted to
> > know if really is a bug - or "feature"?
> >
> > What I've noticed, is that when I get requests to my virtual addresses -
> > it forwards these to the realservers - but appereantly the request is
> > NOT added to the Netfilter ESTABLISHED table - so the response from the
> > realserver is not allowed out - unless I specificly allow everything out
> > from the realservers service-ports (http and https in this case) :(
> >
> > Am I just mistaken, in thinking a connection established from the
> > outside should be added to the LVS (with the "by LVS" rewritten
> > address), so it will match an ESTABLISHED on the way out?
> >
> > Thank you in advance
> > - --
> > Regards,
> > Klavs Klavsen, GSEC - kl@xxxxxxx - http://www.vsen.dk
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> > "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
> > ~  --Henry Spencer
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