Gateway problem

[Brian Hawk]

On Friday 20 October 2006 21:42, Brian Hawk wrote:
>> I'm having a strange situation for quite sometime. I have two external
>> interfaces one of which is an ADSL interface tun0 and obtains IP address
>> dynamically and the other is a (xl1) leased line which has a static
>> global IP address, lets say 212.64.212.180. Both interfaces access
>> internet without any problem.
>>
>> Recently I've configured qmail on this system to send out email thru xl1
>> interface and use ADSL only for web traffic. It used to work quite good
>> for a while but recently I noticed TCP packets have been going out from
>> tun0 and responses coming in thru xl1. tun0 and ADSL is the default
>> gateway. But the TCP packets are bound to 212.64.212.180 IP address
>> which should send them out thru xl1. But it doesn't.
>>     
> No, you are wrong. Packet will be forwarded to default gateway through the 
> interface which is on same network with it. You need some kind of policy 
> routing. I'm not very familiar with ipf but with pf you can do:
>   
Unfortunately it doesn't go thru the interface which has Src IP address 
same as with it. But goes thru the default gateway. But since the Src IP 
address in the IP packet is 212.64.212.180, all TCP replies come from 
the right interface (xl1) which makes sense because the devices on the 
internet wouldn't make the same mistake.
> pass out on $ext_if0 route-to ($ext_if1 $ext_gw1) inet from $ext_if1 to any
> pass out on $ext_if1 route-to ($ext_if0 $ext_gw0) inet from $ext_if0 to any
>   
> or with ipfw you can use "fwd" rule action.
>   
a "fwd" cannot solve my problem because it likes to forward packets to a 
certain IP addr or an IP:port, which is not what I want. I just need to 
forward (or rather route) them thru an "interface". Again, I still think 
this is what FreeBSD should really be doing for packets which have 
interface's IP  as Src IP addr in the IP header.
>> For the test, I did these
>>
>> tcpdump -nt -i xl1 tcp &
>> telnet -s 212.64.212.180 smtp.tnet.com 25
>>
>> connection establishes but I can see only the TCP response packets
>> coming from xl1, like the following
>>
>> x.y.z.t > 212.64.212.180
>> x.y.z.t > 212.64.212.180
>>
>> All from external IPs to my xl1 int. No packets going out from xl1 they
>> all go thru default gateway even if TCP connections are bound to xl1's
>> IP address.
>>
>> I'd like to know if anybody knows why this happened and I can I turn
>> things back the way they were. Any help would be much appreciated.
>>
>> My configuration is like this;
>>
>> FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE
>> ipf: IP Filter: v3.4.35 (336)
>> Kernel: IP Filter: v3.4.35
>> ipfw has no rules; allow ip from any to any
>> there's also a transparent proxy setup for squid
>>
>> #~>netstat -rn
>> Routing tables
>>
>> Internet:
>> Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
>> default            88.234.8.1         UGS         0 78722302   tun0
>> 10/24              link#1             UC          0        0    rl0 =>
>> 10                 10.1.1.222         UGS         0    26233    xl0
>> 10.0.0.99          link#1             UHLW        0        4    rl0
>> 10.1.1/24          link#2             UC          0        0    xl0
>> 10.1.1.13          00:50:8d:ed:88:94  UHLW        0     1876    xl0   1118
>> 10.1.1.222         00:01:02:df:c1:19  UHLW        1      689    lo0
>> 10.1.1.225         00:b0:d0:20:b7:9e  UHLW        0    96690    xl0    706
>> 88.234.8.1         88.234.14.26       UH          1        0   tun0
>> 127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          0  2305904    lo0
>> 192.168.0/16       link#3             UCS         0        0    xl1
>> 212.64.212.176     ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  UHLWb       0       15    xl1 =>
>> 212.64.212.176/29  link#3             UC          0        0    xl1
>> 212.64.212.180     00:04:76:9b:3d:f8  UHLW        0      125    lo0
>>
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