On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 2:30 PM, James Harper
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 1) Add a mark to the packet
>> # iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 1194 -j MARK --set-mark
>> 0x4aa
>>
>> 2) Verify the PREROUTING table has the mark
>> # iptables t mangle -L PREROUTING -v
>> Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT 126K packets, 87M bytes)
>> pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
>> 0 0 MARK tcp - any any anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:openvpn MARK set
>> 0x4aa
>
> That "0 0" means no bytes have been satisfied by that rule. Can you check 
> after you have tested a packet that should satisfy the rule to confirm that 
> the counters are increasing?

The counters are not increasing.

>> So to my mind, any packet with destination port of tcp 1194, should
>> get the 0x4aa mark and then be routed using the routing table vlan156
>> which tells it to use the default gateway of 172.26.10.1. However this
>> is not happening, all traffic is still being routed using the default
>> gateway in the main routing table (ip route show).
>>
>> Any suggestions as to why it's not working?
>>
>
> How are you determining that the packets aren't going the right way?

tcpdump, lsof -i, conntrack -L and checking the connected IP address
on the openvpn server.

> Is OpenVPN definitely using TCP? Default is UDP.

Yes, definitely using TCP.

> Did you flush the route cache after - "ip route flush cache"?

No I hadn't, but I just tried this now, and it hasn't made any
difference. I also tried with conntack -F  to flush the conntrack
caches.

Marcus.

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Marcus Furlong
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