shorewall_code/docs/IPP2P.xml

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    <title>Shorewall and ipp2p</title>

    <authorgroup>
      <author>
        <firstname>Tom</firstname>

        <surname>Eastep</surname>
      </author>
    </authorgroup>

    <pubdate>2005-10-04</pubdate>

    <copyright>
      <year>2004</year>

      <year>2005</year>

      <holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
    </copyright>

    <legalnotice>
      <para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
      document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
      1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
      no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
      Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
      <quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
      License</ulink></quote>.</para>
    </legalnotice>
  </articleinfo>

  <caution>
    <para><emphasis role="bold">This article applies to Shorewall 3.0 and
    later. If you are running a version of Shorewall earlier than Shorewall
    3.0.0 then please see the documentation for that
    release.</emphasis></para>
  </caution>

  <section>
    <title>Introduction</title>

    <para>Shorewall verions 2.2.0 and later include support for the ipp2p
    match facility. This is a departure from my usual policy in that the ipp2p
    match facility is included in Patch-O-Matic-NG and is unlikely to ever be
    included in the kernel.org source tree. Questions about how to install the
    patch or how to build your kernel and/or iptables should not be posted on
    the Shorewall mailing lists but should rather be referred to the Netfilter
    Mailing List.</para>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Scope</title>

    <para>In the following files, the "PROTO" or "PROTOCOL" column may contain
    "ipp2p":</para>

    <simplelist>
      <member><ulink
      url="traffic_shaping.htm">/etc/shorewall/tcrules</ulink></member>

      <member><ulink
      url="Accounting.html">/etc/shorewall/accounting</ulink></member>

      <member><ulink
      url="Shorewall_and_Routing.html">/etc/shorewall/rules</ulink> (Recommend
      that you place the rules in the ESTABLISHED section of that
      file).</member>
    </simplelist>

    <para>When the PROTO or PROTOCOL column contains "ipp2p" then the DEST
    PORT(S) or PORT(S) column may contain a recognized ipp2p option; for a
    list of the options and their meaning, at a root prompt type:</para>

    <programlisting><command>iptables -m ipp2p --help</command></programlisting>

    <para>You must not include the leading "--" on the option; Shorewall will
    supply those characters for you. If you do not include an option then
    "ipp2p" is assumed (Shorewall will generate "-m ipp2p --ipp2p").</para>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Example:</title>

    <para>Example 2 in the ipp2p documentation recommends the following
    iptables rules:</para>

    <programlisting>01# iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -p tcp -j CONNMARK --restore-mark
02# iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m mark ! --mark 0 -j ACCEPT
03# iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m ipp2p --ipp2p -j MARK --set-mark 1
04# iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m mark --mark 1 -j CONNMARK --save-mark

05# iptables -t mangle -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -m mark --mark 1 -j CLASSIFY --set-class 1:12
06# iptables -t mangle -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -m mark --mark 1 -j CLASSIFY --set-class 2:12</programlisting>

    <para>Let's examine the above rules more carefully.</para>

    <para>The individual packets of a P2P data stream do not all carry
    tell-tale signs that are identifiable as being a particular P2P
    application. So simply asking the ipp2p match code to mark each individual
    packet isn't enough because only those packets that carry these tell-tale
    signs will be marked. Fortunately, Netfilter provides a different type of
    mark -- the <firstterm>Connection Mark</firstterm> which is associated
    with the entry in the conntrack table rather that with the individual
    packet. You can see connection mark values with the <command>shorewall
    show connections</command> command:</para>

    <programlisting>gateway:/etc/test# shorewall show connections
Shorewall-2.5.6 Connections at gateway - Tue Oct  4 15:45:11 PDT 2005

tcp      6 269712 ESTABLISHED src=192.168.3.8 dst=206.124.146.177 sport=50584 dport=993 packets=4899
         bytes=302282 src=206.124.146.177 dst=192.168.3.8 sport=993 dport=50584 packets=7760 bytes=10032928 [ASSURED] <emphasis
        role="bold">mark=0</emphasis> use=1
...</programlisting>

    <para>Connection marks are persistent -- that is, once a connection mark
    is set it retains its value until the connection is terminated. </para>

    <para>Netfilter provides features to:</para>

    <orderedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>Mark individual packets with a numeric value.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Save the current packet mark value in the connection
        mark.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Restore the value in the connection mark to the current
        packet.</para>
      </listitem>
    </orderedlist>

    <para>The strategy employed in the above rules is to mark the connection
    of each P2P session with a mark value of 1. That way, each packet that is
    part of the session can be marked using the 'Restore' function and can be
    classified accordingly.</para>

    <orderedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>Rule 01# restores the connection mark into the current
        packet.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Rule 02# tests that restored mark and if it is not equal to
        zero, the packet is ACCEPTed (no further processing).</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Rule 03# asks the ipp2p match module to examine the packet and
        if it is identifiable as part of a P2P session, mark the packet with
        value 1.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Rule 04# saves the current packet mark in the conntrack table if
        the current mark value is 1 (in other words, if it was marked by rule
        03#).</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Rule 05# classifies the packet to traffic shaping class 1:12 if
        it is going out of eth0 and has mark value 1<footnote>
            <para>There are two ways that Netfilter/iptables can classify
            traffic. It can be classified directly (which is what this example
            does) by specifying a <firstterm>classid</firstterm> of the form
            &lt;number&gt;:&lt;number&gt; in the MARK column. That is the
            preferred method. A classid is specified when a traffic shaping
            class is defined. tc4shorewall assigns a classid of 1:&lt;100 +
            mark value&gt;. They may also be classified using an
            <firstterm>fwmark classifier</firstterm> which causes the traffic
            shaping code to classify the traffic based in the packet mark
            value. That is done by the traffic shaping solution using the
            <command>tc filter add</command> command. The built-in
            tc4shorewall shaper uses this command so if you are using the
            built-in traffic shaping solution, you may use either
            method.</para>
          </footnote>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Rule 06# classifies the packet to traffic shaping class 2:12 if
        it is going out of eth1 and has mark value 1.</para>
      </listitem>
    </orderedlist>

    <para>These are implemented in the /etc/shorewall/tcrules file as
    follows:</para>

    <programlisting>#MARK                SOURCE        DEST        PROTO        PORT(S)        CLIENT     USER    TEST
#                                                                          PORT(S)
RESTORE:P            -             -           tcp
CONTINUE:P           -             -           tcp          -              -          -       !0
1:P                  -             -           ipp2p        ipp2p
SAVE:P               -             -           tcp          -              -          -       1
1:12                 -             eth0        -            -              -          -       1
2:12                 -             eth1        -            -              -          -       1    </programlisting>

    <para>These rules do exactly the same thing as their counterparts
    described above.</para>
  </section>
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