PF route-to behavior

Tom Judge tom at tomjudge.com
Mon Mar 12 17:30:11 UTC 2007


Alexandre Biancalana wrote:
> Tom Judge wrote:
>> Alexandre Biancalana wrote:
>>> Tom Judge wrote:
>>>> Alexandre Biancalana wrote:
>>>>> Hi List,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I´m doing a firewall setup using 6-STABLE + PF with two internet 
>>>>> links but I can't do the route-to rule function as I need.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>          (default gw)    ______
>>>>>  Link A <-----------> |int A  |
>>>>>                                  |           |
>>>>>  Link B <-----------> |int B  |
>>>>>                                  |______|
>>>>>                              FreeBSD FW
>>>>>
>>>>> A simple thing that I need to do is test the two Internet links to 
>>>>> know if they are up or not. To do this I could ping or connect tcp 
>>>>> ports on some external ips thought each link, using nc and hping I 
>>>>> tried do this generate connections/packets from each network 
>>>>> interface connected to each link but the packets always go out by 
>>>>> the interface indicated by machines default route.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried to add this rules in pf to force packets out by the right 
>>>>> interface based in your source address, but this does not work, and 
>>>>> the packets generated with ip of int B are going out by int A.
>>>>>
>>>>> pass out log on $int_a route-to ( $int_b $int_b_gw ) from $int_b to 
>>>>> any
>>>>> pass out log on $int_b route-to ( $int_a $int_a_gw ) from $int_a to 
>>>>> any
>>>>>

<SNIP/>

> # ping -S <ip B addr> -I <if A>
> ping: invalid multicast interface: `<if A>'
> 
> but it should be ping -S <ip B addr> -I <if B> , for the traffic go out 
> by int B with int B source address right ? I tried too and the same 
> error happens.
> 
> 
>  From ping man page:
> 
> [...]
> -I iface
>             Source multicast packets with the given interface address.  
> This
>             flag only applies if the ping destination is a multicast 
> address.
> [...]


My mistake,  I only looked at the header of the ping man page.

These are the rules that I would use in that situation:

if_a=em0
ip_a=192.168.0.2
gw_a=192.168.0.1
net_a=192.168.0.0/24
if_b=em1
ip_a=192.168.1.2
gw_a=192.168.1.1
net_a=192.168.1.0/24


pass out log on $if_a route-to ( $if_b $gw_b ) from $ip_a to ! $net_b
pass out log on $if_b route-to ( $if_a $gw_a ) from $ip_b to ! $net_a

Tom





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