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Could policy routing with fwmark be applied to locally generated packet ?

DISCUSSION dog daemon 1 participant 1 message Jun 23, 2006

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Hi all:

Below is the setting in my linux box :

         +--- eth0 10.0.30.1/24 ------------------- 10.0.0.254 gw
Linux Box |                             wired
         |
         +--- wlan 192.168.0.1/24 ----~~~~~------- 192.168.0.254 gw

wireless

10.0.0.254 is the default gateway in my linux box, but it has multiple gateways rather than single one. The difference between the two gateways(10.0.0.254 and 192.168.0.254) is that the former is restricted by MIS but rather fast, the later is free for any traffic but is very slow and unstable.

The question is could we use netfilter fwmark to mark locally generated port 80 packet (http) to certain fwmark(ex. 0x20), and route them to wireless route, but keep the default gw being 10.0.0.254?

I have tested the following environment but it seemed that the packets was be routed to the correct route, but had the incorrect source address(the address of eth0).

mangle table and routing table, rules
================================================================================
SuperAMD linux # iptables -v -t mangle --list OUTPUT Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 4549 packets, 551K bytes)

pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
  14   840 MARK       tcp  --  any    any     anywhere             

anywhere tcp dpt:http MARK set 0x20

SuperAMD linux # ip rule list

0:      from all lookup local
32765:  from all fwmark 0x20 lookup squid
32766:  from all lookup main
32767:  from all lookup default

SuperAMD linux # ip route ls
10.5.30.0/24 dev eth0 scope link
192.168.3.0/24 dev wlan0 scope link
127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link
default via 10.5.30.254 dev eth0

SuperAMD linux # ip route ls table squid 192.168.3.0/24 dev wlan0 scope link src 192.168.3.10 default via 192.168.3.1 dev wlan0
====================================================================================

tcpdump wlan0 when I invoked firefox

====================================================================================
SuperAMD ~ # tcpdump -i wlan0 -n tcp or icmp
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on wlan0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
17:05:44.570096 IP 10.5.30.17.37418 > 64.233.189.104.80: S 2634301649:2634301649(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 13842 23 0,nop,wscale 2> 17:05:47.564537 IP 10.5.30.17.37418 > 64.233.189.104.80: S 2634301649:2634301649(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 13849 73 0,nop,wscale 2> 17:05:53.564917 IP 10.5.30.17.37418 > 64.233.189.104.80: S 2634301649:2634301649(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 13864 73 0,nop,wscale 2>

3 packets captured
6 packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel
====================================================================================

I think that output routing decision was done before "OUTPUT" chain in mangle table, and the outgoing address was already chosen(this is different from building an router which redirect the incoming http traffic to certain route).

Is there another way to fit this requirement or am i missing something(documentation) ? Thanks.