Can anyone tell me whether I have a routing problem, or
 an openVPN problem, or something else? I''ve stared at this
 for so long I think I must be looking in the wrong place!
 
 I have 3 machines:
 Machine A has single ethernet card, eth0, 192.168.5.5
 Machine B has eth0, 192.168.5.? on the local net,
                        eth1, 81.2.x.y to the internet, and
                        tun0, 10.8.?.?, an openVPN tunnel, to C
 Machine C has eth0 to the internet and
                        tun0, 10.8.?.?, back to B.
 Out on the internet is machine D, a publicly accessible
 http server - say 64.233.167.99, port 80.
 
 Machine B is set, as per the howto, to mark packets from
 A destined for D and route them out over tun0. Machine
 C then masquerades them out to D.
 
 I should mention that the tunnel works fine for access between
 A (or B) and C. In particular C can happily ping A over the tunnel.
 (And "everything else" is fine. "Normal" traffic has no
problem.)
 
 The problem is that A cannot get replies from D.
 Using tcpdump and adding ''LOG'' rules to iptables on A, B
 and C shows the packet going from A to B to C and out to
 D. The reply packet returns to C, crosses the tunnel to B
 and promptly vanishes. A log rule in the mangle prerouting
 list on B shows the packet from the tunnel:
 Feb 17 07:48:54 B kernel: [mangle prerouting src]: IN=tun0 OUT= \
    MAC= SRC=64.233.167.99 DST=192.168.5.5 LEN=44 \
    TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=48 ID=34487 DF PROTO=TCP \
    SPT=80 DPT=32882 WINDOW=8000 RES=0x00 ACK SYN URGP=0
 
 Similar log rules in mangle-prerouting, and in the forward (and
 input) chains never log anything. The packet is never seen again.
 
 Can anyone tell me where to look next? Is this a routing problem
 or is something happening because of the tunnel setup? Or
 something else???
 
 (Machine B is fairly vanilla Debian stable with 2.4.18 kernel.)
 
 Thanks for your patience!
 
 
		
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On Friday 17 February 2006 09:28, Steve Tracey wrote:> The problem is that A cannot get replies from D. > Using tcpdump and adding ''LOG'' rules to iptables on A, B > and C shows the packet going from A to B to C and out to > D. The reply packet returns to C, crosses the tunnel to B > and promptly vanishes. A log rule in the mangle prerouting > list on B shows the packet from the tunnel: > Feb 17 07:48:54 B kernel: [mangle prerouting src]: IN=tun0 OUT= \ > MAC= SRC=64.233.167.99 DST=192.168.5.5 LEN=44 \ > TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=48 ID=34487 DF PROTO=TCP \ > SPT=80 DPT=32882 WINDOW=8000 RES=0x00 ACK SYN URGP=0 > > Similar log rules in mangle-prerouting, and in the forward (and > input) chains never log anything. The packet is never seen again. > > Can anyone tell me where to look next? Is this a routing problem > or is something happening because of the tunnel setup? Or > something else???Looks like rp_filter catches this, try set rp_filter off on host B. Because packets from the internet normaly should come through eth1 on host B and not on tun0. see: http://ipsysctl-tutorial.frozentux.net/ipsysctl-tutorial.html#AEN634 greets, Tami
Got it in one! Thanks. All ok now.
 I''ll go and read up on all the other conf variables.
 Thanks again.
Paul Zirnik <tami@disconnected.de> wrote:
Looks like rp_filter catches this, try set rp_filter off on host B.
Because packets from the internet normaly should come through eth1 on
host B and not on tun0.
see: http://ipsysctl-tutorial.frozentux.net/ipsysctl-tutorial.html#AEN634
greets,
     Tami
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