Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:07:02 -0800 From: Sean Hafeez <sahafeez@edgefocus.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org, Karan Gupta <kgupta@edgefocus.com>, "Eric (E-mail)" <echan@edgefocus.com> Subject: Strange GRE packet flows... Message-ID: <401E91C6.8040800@edgefocus.com>
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I have a 4.9 box (router1) running IPFW: /sbin/natd -interface rl0 -s ipfw add 999 divert natd all from any to any via rl0 ipfw add pipe 1 ip from any to any in recv vr0 ipfw add pipe 2 ip from any to any out xmit vr0 ipfw pipe 1 config mask src-ip 0xffffffff bw 512kbits/s ipfw pipe 2 config mask dst-ip 0xffffffff bw 512kbits/s And on this box I have some GRE tunnels: ifconfig gre8 create ifconfig gre8 tunnel x.x.x.x y.y.y.y ifconfig gre8 inet 172.20.1.13 172.20.1.14 netmask 255.255.255.252 ifconfig gre8 up route add -net 10.0.100.0 -netmask 255.255.255.0 172.20.1.14 The tunnels terminate on a Cisco 1720 or a box running FreeBSD 4.8 or 4.9. (Same config as above reversed). The Cisco or the BSD box are running NAT on their side. If I ping a box behind the remote side from my desktop which is behind the router1 box I drop 3 out of 5 packets. Now for the strange part - If I get a ping going to that same node from the router1 box and then ping from my desktop I drop no packets. If I kill the ping on the router1 box the pings from the desktop start dropping packets. This also works if I ping the external interface on the remote router. BTW, I have just changed the router1 box from Gentoo Linux using the IPROTUE package for the tunnels to FreeBSD 4.9. It worked just fine with the router1 running Linux. I would hate to have to change back as I hate Linux and think IPTABLES was written as a replacement for pulling finger nails out with pliers. Thoughts? Thanks!
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