By Daiko
I setup a IPSec connection from a VPN GW-A to VPN GW-B, hosts in VPN A subnet can send packets to hosts in VPN B subnet and vice-verse.
VPN GW-A is Ubuntu Server.
I need to connect to GW-A pub IP on port 9876 and route/forward to host in the GW-B subnet to the same port 9876.
What i did
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
-A PREROUTING -d GW-A/32 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 9876 -j DNAT --to-destination HOST-B:9876 -A POSTROUTING -s HOST-B/32 -d GW-A/32 -p tcp -m tcp --sport 9876 --dport 9876
My tcpdump log when try to connect to GW-A on port 9876 is
12:07:51.830469 IP CLIENT.60364 > GW-A.9876: Flags [SEW], seq 2029591603, win 8192, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 8,nop,nop,sackOK], length 0 12:07:51.830520 IP GW-A.60364 > HOST-B.9876: Flags [SEW], seq 2029591603, win 8192, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 8,nop,nop,sackOK], length 0 12:07:57.898877 IP CLIENT.60364 > GW-A.9876: Flags [S], seq 2029591603, win 8192, options [mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK], length 0 12:07:57.898928 IP GW-A.60364 > HOST-B.9876: Flags [S], seq 2029591603, win 8192, options [mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK], length 0
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Heya,
Just came across this answer and decided to write some general guidelines for anyone who comes across this in the future despite the old question.
Based on your tcpdump log, it’s clear that your forwarded packets are reaching HOST-B, but it seems as though there’s no response coming back. This could be due to a few reasons:
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HOST-B is not accepting or responding to the packets. You should make sure that your application on HOST-B is accepting connections on port 9876.
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The return packets might be not correctly routed back to the client through GW-A. Make sure you’ve configured your
POSTROUTINGrules correctly.
You can use the iptables -t nat -L -n -v command to verify your rules.
Remember to make any iptables configuration changes, and always test your configuration after applying it.
Hope that this helps!
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