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Bug#631980: linux-image-3.0.0-rc4-amd64: Traceroute problems with clients behind gateway



On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 14:24 -0600, Brielle wrote:
> Package: linux-image-3.0.0-rc4-amd64
> Severity: normal
> Tags: experimental
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze
>   APT prefers proposed-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm noticing a problem with clients behind my linux system that acts
> as a NAT gateway.  When doing a traceroute from the client, to say,
> google.com, the first hop is showing up as the final destination rather
> then the IP address of the gateway.
> 
> -----
> traceroute to 74.125.224.48 (74.125.224.48), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
>  1  74.125.224.48 (74.125.224.48)  0.658 ms  0.106 ms  0.123 ms
>  2  boid-dsl-gw07-199.boid.qwest.net (184.99.64.199)  42.359 ms  41.447 ms  42.161 ms
>  3  boid-agw1.inet.qwest.net (184.99.65.49)  41.549 ms  40.989 ms  42.573 ms
>  4  sea-edge-12.inet.qwest.net (67.14.41.22)  86.234 ms  57.025 ms  55.848 ms
>  5  65.122.121.66 (65.122.121.66)  58.344 ms  56.292 ms  55.848 ms
> -----
> 
> Proper traceroute from unaffected kernel (in this case, 2.6.38-2)

Please can you clarify whether you are changing the kernel version on
the gateway or on the client computer?

> -----
> traceroute to 74.125.224.48 (74.125.224.48), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
>  1  gateway (10.11.1.1)  1.431 ms  0.458 ms  0.445 ms
>  2  boid-dsl-gw07-199.boid.qwest.net (184.99.64.199)  42.727 ms  43.713 ms  43.292 ms
>  3  184-99-65-49.boid.qwest.net (184.99.65.49)  43.442 ms  46.488 ms  43.461 ms
>  4  sea-edge-12.inet.qwest.net (67.14.41.22)  59.208 ms  58.577 ms  56.627 ms
>  5  65.122.121.66 (65.122.121.66)  56.779 ms  59.540 ms  121.465 ms
> -----
> 
> Same exact firewalling rules are in place with iptables on both
> traceroutes (SNAT, not messing with traceroutes, icmp in/out).
> 
> Even with a completely clean boot with no firewalling rules and no
> nat rules, traceroute shows exactly the same thing, first hop shows up
> as the destination.  So, I'm not entirely sure its related to netfilter.
> 
> I do have packet dumps from the tests if they might be useful.

Yes, please send standard pcap files.

Ben.

> I can confirm that 2.6.32-5 kernels from squeeze also do not exhibit
> this issue.
> 
> Thanks for looking into this!
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Ben Hutchings
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

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