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Date:      Thu, 28 Dec 2017 10:58:07 -0500
From:      John Lyon <johnllyon@gmail.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
Subject:   Re: Need Netgraph Help
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Julian,

That looks exactly like what I want!  It also looks like what I thought I
was doing.  I have no idea why it worked for you and not for me.  :-(

I will copy and paste tonight after work (making changes for em0 and em1 on
my own test system) and see if I can get it to work.  If it works, I will
figure out what I was doing wrong and let the world know in case anyone
wants to Google it in the future.  If it doesn't work -- I'll be back. :-)

To answer your other questions:

(1) EAP (or more accurately in this case EAPOL) is the extensible
authentication protocol over LAN and is used for 802.1X port
authentication.  The authentication frames are marked with the ethertype
0x888e to distinguish them from other Ethernet frames.  They are also
assigned the broadcast MAC address of 01:80:c2:00:00:03.  Because 802.1D
states that a standard compliant switch or bridge cannot forward frames
with a MAC address in the range of 01:80:c2:00:00:00 to 01:80:c2:00:00:0f,
you can't just create a bridge in FreeBSD between the two interfaces since
the FreeBSD bridge code is standard compliant.  So I have to process and
forward the frames another way and it looks like Netgraph will let me do
it.  Otherwise, I'm going to have to patch the bridge code in the kernel to
include a sysctl variable that enables or disables this compliance.

(2) You are correct that there are return frames (not packets as this all
occurs at layer 2).  However, the graph to handle the return frames is
going to just be a mirror of the the graph for processing the outgoing
frames.  So if I can get it working in one direction, it's trivial to
create a mirror image graph for the reverse direction.

Thanks!





--------------------------------
John L. Lyon
PGP Key Available At:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/skmedtscs0tgex7/02150BFE.asc

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote=
:

> On 28/12/17 1:37 am, John Lyon wrote:
>
> Julian,
>
> Unfortunately, this issue remains unresolved.  I would like to think that
> this is just a PEBKAC issue, but I have tried every permutation of escape
> characters in case it's an issue with my syntax and I get the same set of
> errors.  No matter what I do, I can't connect the no match hook of an ETF
> node to the upper hook of an ng_ether node.  Do you have any insights int=
o
> why this might be occurring?
>
> By the way, thanks for reaching out to me!  I was going to email you
> directly after the holidays since your name and email address are at the
> bottom of the relevant Netgraph man pages.  I figured that must mean if y=
ou
> didn't know the answer, no one does. :-)
>
>
> what is EAP?
> what about return EAP packets? (are there any?)
>
> I think this is what you want:
> $ sudo ngctl list
> There are 7 total nodes:
>   Name: igb0            Type: ether           ID: 00000001   Num hooks: 0
>   Name: igb1            Type: ether           ID: 00000002   Num hooks: 0
>   Name: ix0             Type: ether           ID: 00000003   Num hooks: 0
>   Name: ix1             Type: ether           ID: 00000004   Num hooks: 0
>   Name: tap0            Type: ether           ID: 00000005   Num hooks: 0
>   Name: bridge3         Type: ether           ID: 00000006   Num hooks: 0
>   Name: ngctl7372       Type: socket          ID: 00000007   Num hooks: 0
> $ sudo kldload ng_etf
> $ sudo ngctl name ix0:lower eapfilter
> $ sudo ngctl connect eapfilter: ix0: nomatch upper
> $ sudo ngctl connect eapfilter: ix1: eapout lower
> $ sudo ngctl show eapfilter:
>   Name: eapfilter       Type: etf             ID: 00000021   Num hooks: 3
>   Local hook      Peer name       Peer type    Peer ID         Peer hook
>   ----------      ---------       ---------    -------         ---------
>   eapout          ix1             ether        00000004        lower
>   nomatch         ix0             ether        00000003        upper
>   downstream      ix0             ether        00000003        lower
> $ sudo ngctl msg eapfilter: 'setfilter { matchhook=3D"eapout"
> ethertype=3D0x888e }'
> $
>
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --------------------------------
> John L. Lyon
> PGP Key Available At:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/skmedtscs0tgex7/02150BFE.asc
>
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
>> John did you get a resolution to this issue?
>>
>>
>> On 16/12/17 2:59 am, John Lyon wrote:
>>
>>> Harry and Eugene (and others),
>>>
>>> I appreciate all of your help.  It's been really insightful.  Although =
I
>>> feel like I'm getting much closer to the solution, I don't think my
>>> problem
>>> has been diagnosed.  I've outlined my thought process below.  Can you
>>> please tell me if I am misunderstanding something?  Admittedly, I am no=
t
>>> a
>>> kernel developer and my C language skills have atrophied the last few
>>> years.  However, I've reviewed my script and I looked in the code for
>>> ng_etf.c and I don't think I am violating any of the requirements for
>>> linking a hook for no match.
>>>
>>> As Eugene stated:
>>>
>>> 1) referenced "matchook" exists and you should not use "indirect name"
>>>>>
>>>> here,
>>>
>>>> only hook own name, or else you get error ENOENT (No such file or
>>>>>
>>>> directory);
>>>
>>> This does not seem to be a problem as the upper and lower hooks for the
>>> em1
>>> already exist (I can confirm this).
>>>
>>> 2) referenced "matchook" is *not* downstream hook, or else you get erro=
r
>>>>> EINVAL (Invalid argument);
>>>>>
>>>> I read the ng_etf.c file in the source tree and found this little
>>> snippet:
>>>
>>> /* and is not the downstream hook */
>>> if (hook =3D=3D etfp->downstream_hook.hook) {
>>>      error =3D EINVAL;
>>>      break;
>>> }
>>>
>>> This appears to be an error check to make sure you are not creating a
>>> cycle
>>> in the graph by referencing the ETF node's own downstream hook (i.e.
>>> filtering incoming traffic and circularly feeding non-matching frames
>>> back
>>> into the ETF's own filter).  I'm not doing this.  I am feeding
>>> non-matching
>>> packets into the *lower* hook of another ether node and not back into t=
he
>>> *downstream* hook of the etf node I am creating.  As a result, my
>>> netgraph
>>> should not be triggering this error condition.
>>>
>>> 3) it was not already configured, or else you get error EEXIST (File
>>>>>
>>>> exists).
>>>
>>> I am not getting this error, so it appears not to be an issue in my cas=
e.
>>>
>>> What am I missing here?  The man page states that "*any other *hook" ca=
n
>>> be
>>>
>>> used for the non-matching packets.  So the man page says this should
>>> work,
>>> and there's no explicit error condition that I see (caveat, I have not
>>> written in C for at least 10 years  - PEBKAC is entirely possible) that
>>> would be triggered in the ng_etf code.  So what is going wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks for all of your help, patience, and understanding.
>>>
>>>
>>> --------------------------------
>>> John L. Lyon
>>> PGP Key Available At:
>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/skmedtscs0tgex7/02150BFE.asc
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 3:48 AM, Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd@omnilan.de=
>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Bez=C3=BCglich Eugene Grosbein's Nachricht vom 14.12.2017 23:07 (localt=
ime):
>>>>
>>>>> 15.12.2017 4:27, John Lyon wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm a new Netgraph user, but am having some problems with a simple
>>>>>>>> Netgraph
>>>>>>>> script I have written.  Unfortunately, the error message is crypti=
c
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and I
>>>>
>>>>> can't tell what I am doing wrong since my script closely follows the
>>>>>>>> example provided in the ng_etf man page.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> For some context, I'm trying to filter EAP traffic coming in on my
>>>>>>>> LAN
>>>>>>>> interface.  Any ethernet frames that correspond to EAP traffic nee=
d
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> to be
>>>>
>>>>> immediately forwarded from the LAN interface to my WAN interface.  Al=
l
>>>>>>>> other ethernet frames coming in on my LAN interface need to be
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> handled by
>>>>
>>>>> the kernel's network stack.  A (horrid) ASCII art representation of m=
y
>>>>>>>> desired netgraph would look like this:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> lower -> em0 -> downstream -> ETF -> no match -> upper em0
>>>>>>>>                                                             ->
>>>>>>>> match ->
>>>>>>>> lower em1
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The script I have written is this:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>      #! /bin/sh
>>>>>>>>      ngctl mkpeer em0: etf lower downstream
>>>>>>>>      ngctl name em0:lower lan_filter
>>>>>>>>      ngctl connect em0: lan_filter: upper nomatch
>>>>>>>>      ngctl msg lan_filter: setfilter { matchhook=3D"em1:lower"
>>>>>>>> ethertype=3D0x888e }
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Unfortunately, the last line of my script generates the following
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> error
>>>>
>>>>> message:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>      ngctl: send msg: Invalid Argument
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For "setfilter" command to work, ng_etf requires that:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) referenced "matchook" exists and you should not use "indirect name=
"
>>>>>
>>>> here,
>>>>
>>>>> only hook own name, or else you get error ENOENT (No such file or
>>>>>
>>>> directory);
>>>>
>>>>> 2) referenced "matchook" is *not* downstream hook, or else you get
>>>>> error
>>>>> EINVAL (Invalid argument);
>>>>> 3) it was not already configured, or else you get error EEXIST (File
>>>>>
>>>> exists).
>>>>
>>>> Eugene kindly looked into the code and found that the error is due to
>>>> wrong matchhook definition.
>>>> I've never had any contact with ng_etf yet, but according to the man
>>>> page, you need to set the (additional) filter hook by 'nghook -a
>>>> lan_filter: mydrain' and use 'matchhook=3Dmydrain' for the 'msg' comma=
nd.
>>>>
>>>> Do idea about the intention, so for the rest you have to tweak as
>>>> needed.
>>>>
>>>> -harry
>>>>
>>>>
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