[ovs-dev] [PATCH net 1/2] openvswitch: support asymmetric conntrack

Nicolas Dichtel nicolas.dichtel at 6wind.com
Tue Nov 12 08:52:45 UTC 2019


Le 08/11/2019 à 22:07, Aaron Conole a écrit :
> The openvswitch module shares a common conntrack and NAT infrastructure
> exposed via netfilter.  It's possible that a packet needs both SNAT and
> DNAT manipulation, due to e.g. tuple collision.  Netfilter can support
> this because it runs through the NAT table twice - once on ingress and
> again after egress.  The openvswitch module doesn't have such capability.
> 
> Like netfilter hook infrastructure, we should run through NAT twice to
> keep the symmetry.
> 
> Fixes: 05752523e565 ("openvswitch: Interface with NAT.")
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
In this case, ovs_ct_find_existing() won't be able to find the conntrack, right?
Inverting the tuple to find the conntrack doesn't work anymore with double NAT.
Am I wrong?


Regards,
Nicolas


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