On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 06:21:15PM -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 02:55:05PM -0500, Xin Long wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 2:17 PM Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> > > > "table=1, in_port=veth1,tcp,tcp_dst=2121,ct_state=+trk+new
> > > > actions=ct(nat(dst=7.7.16.3)),ct(commit, nat(src=7.7.16.1),
> > > > alg=ftp),veth2"
> > > >
> > > > as long as it allows the 1st one doesn't commit, which is a simple
> > > > check in parse_nat().
> > > > I tested it, TC already supports it. I'm not sure about drivers, but I
> > >
> > > There's an outstanding issue with act_ct that it may reuse an old
> > > CT cache. Fixing it could (I'm not sure) impact this use case:
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2099220
> > > same issue in ovs was fixed in
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2061ecfdf2350994e5b61c43e50e98a7a70e95ee
> > >
> > > (please don't ask me who would NAT and then overwrite IP addresses and
> > > then NAT it again :D)
> > I thought only traditional NAT would change IP, I'm too naive.
> > 
> > nftables names this as "stateless NAT."
> > With two CTs in the same zone for full nat is more close to the
> > netfilter's NAT processing (the same CT goes from prerouting to
> > postrouting).
> > Now I'm wondering how nftables handles the stateful NAT and stateless
> > NAT at the same time.
> 
> Me too.

There is a 'notrack' action to skip connection tracking for the flows
where the user needs stateless NAT.
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