Re: ipsec doesn't route TCP with 4.11 kernel

[Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com>]

Hi Don,

Can you see if this bug started happening in v4.11-rc3?  Since your
running Ubuntu, a kernel is already available here:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.11-rc3/

If v4.11-rc2 is good and -rc3 is bad, I can help you bisect between the two.

Thanks,

Joe



On 04/25/2017 09:08 PM, Don Bowman wrote:
> I'm not sure how to describe this.
>
> 4.11rc2 worked, after that, no.
>
> My ipsec tunnel comes up ok. ICMP works. UDP works. But TCP, the
> sender [which is the ipsec client] does not reach the destination.
>
> Its not a routing rule issue (since ICMP/UDP work).
> Its not a traffic selector just selecting TCP (I think) since ipsec
> status shows just a subnet, no protocol.
>
> Using tcpdump:
> # iptables -t mangle -I PREROUTING -m policy --pol ipsec --dir in -j
> NFLOG --nflog-group 5
> # iptables -t mangle -I POSTROUTING -m policy --pol ipsec --dir out -j
> NFLOG --nflog-group 5
> # tcpdump -s 0 -n -i nflog:5
>
> I see that it thinks it is sending the TCP packet, but the server end
> does not receive.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestion to try?
>
> strongswan is 5.5.1 [on ubuntu 17.04]
> kernel is 4.11.0-041100rc8-generic
>
> My rightsubnet is
> rightsubnet = 192.168.128.0/17,10.0.0.0/8
>
> so no specific protocol selected, the result is:
> CHILD_SA sv{1} established with SPIs c05f1b6c_i 0d58815a_o and TS
> 192.168.130.4/32 === 10.0.0.0/8 192.168.128.0/17
>
> I tried changing charondebug net=3, but i'm not sure how to interpret
> the output:
>
> Apr 25 21:06:34 office charon: 04[NET] received packet: from
> 64.7.137.180[4500] to 172.16.0.8[4500] (80 bytes)
> Apr 25 21:06:34 office charon: 04[ENC] parsed INFORMATIONAL request 4 [ ]
> Apr 25 21:06:34 office charon: 04[ENC] generating INFORMATIONAL response 4 [ ]
> Apr 25 21:06:34 office charon: 04[NET] sending packet: from
> 172.16.0.8[4500] to 64.7.137.180[4500] (80 bytes)