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Bug #636

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layer7 not work correctly

Added by Mike Stupalov over 14 years ago. Updated about 13 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
Traffic Shaper (ALTQ)
Target version:
-
Start date:
06/01/2010
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Plus Target Version:
Release Notes:
Affected Version:
2.0
Affected Architecture:

Description

Version pfSense:

Current version: 2.0-BETA2
       Built On: Tue Jun 1 00:31:58 EDT 2010

I made a rules for UDP and TCP packets on LAN interface:

Rule Proto Source  Port Destination Port         Gateway     layer7
Pass TCP   LAN net *    *           1024 - 49151 LoadBalance Block-P2P

Rule Proto Source  Port Destination Port          Gateway     layer7
Pass UDP   LAN net *    *           33000 - 49151 LoadBalance Block-P2P

and layer7 rule for block bittorent:

Block-P2P -> bittorrent, action, block

and if I try to send UDP packets through "traceroute" or "mtr -u", their firewall will block with info in the log:

Jun 1 14:44:04     ipfw-classifyd: packet dropped: not TCP or UDP
Jun 1 13:49:33     last message repeated 353 times

with bittorrent (non-SSL) continues to work.


Files

shaper-config-sinai.tacf.org-20110526075427.xml (9.02 KB) shaper-config-sinai.tacf.org-20110526075427.xml Jonathan Puddle, 05/26/2011 07:54 AM
l7shaper.xml (730 Bytes) l7shaper.xml Jonathan Puddle, 05/31/2011 02:02 AM
Actions #1

Updated by Chris Buechler over 14 years ago

duplicate of #433, but this has better info so I closed that one.

Actions #2

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 14 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Feedback

Can you try again with latest snapshot.

Actions #3

Updated by Mike Stupalov over 14 years ago

"traceroute" and "mtr -u" work, but the torrents are also continuing to work.

And now the system log many messages are written:

Jun 3 15:07:11     ipfw-classifyd: sent from divert socket
Jun 3 15:07:11     ipfw-classifyd: received from divert socket

and process ipfw-classifyd utilize 100% 1 CPU:

# top -P

last pid: 50483;  load averages:  1.05,  0.91,  0.52                                                                                    up 0+00:08:21  09:48:53
73 processes:  2 running, 71 sleeping
CPU 0: 31.5% user,  0.0% nice,  0.6% system,  0.0% interrupt, 67.8% idle
CPU 1: 70.3% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt, 29.7% idle
Mem: 46M Active, 11M Inact, 46M Wired, 48K Cache, 19M Buf, 2897M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free

  PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
14207 root        5  44    0  9200K  5296K kqread  0   7:04 100.00% ipfw-classifyd
31595 root        1  44    0   115M 16812K nanslp  0   0:01  0.00% php
...........

My system:

# uname -a
FreeBSD totoro.pht 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #1: Thu Jun  3 04:05:46 EDT 2010     sullrich@FreeBSD_8.0_pfSense_2.0-snaps.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.8  i386

Actions #4

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 14 years ago

You do not have any Found protocol in there?!
And can you please try latest snapshot to know that you have the latest one since i put some more fixes yesterday.

Please a snapshot that is later than this post.
You will find it even because you will not have the repeated errors on the log.

Actions #5

Updated by Mike Stupalov over 14 years ago

Strange, there can be a port ipfw-classifyd in last snapshot was not refreshed?
The behavior has not varied from the last check.

current system:

Current version: 2.0-BETA2
       Built On: Fri Jun 4 17:07:35 EDT 2010

MD5 (/usr/local/sbin/ipfw-classifyd) = 0133f82bbad75f3cb544a22fd5a458c8

I use "Firmware: Auto Update" for upgrades.

Actions #6

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 14 years ago

As far as i know it should be ok on latest snapshots.

Can you please before upgrading make sure no ipfw-classifyd process is running?

Actions #7

Updated by Chris Buechler over 14 years ago

the md5 shown above matches the binary in the latest snapshot as of now, 20100604-1650.

Actions #8

Updated by Mike Stupalov over 14 years ago

Ermal Luçi wrote:

As far as i know it should be ok on latest snapshots.

Can you please before upgrading make sure no ipfw-classifyd process is running?

At upgrade process ipfw-classifyd has been running.

I saw that in last commits changes have been made and debug messages are removed.
http://redmine.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense-tools/repository/revisions/master/show/pfPorts/ipfw-classifyd
But just as has told earlier, in the last snapshot, the behaviour has not varied (as in comment 3).

Actions #9

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 14 years ago

Please try again latest snapshot many things have been fixed and this seems to work as expected now.

Actions #10

Updated by Stacy Anable over 14 years ago

trying to enable ipfw-classifyd in this mornings snapshot gives me this output in my system logs :

Jun 10 16:24:31 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: ftp (rule action block)
Jun 10 16:24:34 ipfw-classifyd: Something went wrong waiting on kqueue.

Actions #11

Updated by Mike Stupalov over 14 years ago

Now periodically there are other messages in system.log:

Jun 10 12:30:37 totoro ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: bittorrent (rule action block)
Jun 10 12:30:41 totoro ipfw-classifyd: Something went wrong waiting on kqueue.
Jun 10 12:31:03 totoro ipfw-classifyd: Something went wrong waiting on kqueue.
Jun 10 12:31:26 totoro ipfw-classifyd: Something went wrong waiting on kqueue.
Jun 10 12:32:28 totoro ipfw-classifyd: Something went wrong waiting on kqueue.

Load on CPU the normal.

But the torrents are also continuing to work, again :)

PF log (for bittorrent packets):

00:00:00.000029 rule 120/0(match): pass in on em0: (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 24678, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 93)
    192.168.192.4.6881 > 188.16.58.135.13518: UDP, length 65
00:00:00.000022 rule 120/0(match): pass in on em0: (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 48415, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 93)
    192.168.192.4.6881 > 188.17.188.117.13518: UDP, length 65
00:00:00.000253 rule 118/0(match): pass in on em0: (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 17201, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 60)
    192.168.192.4.54950 > 212.40.56.138.26691: Flags [S], cksum 0x5157 (correct), seq 3258275224, win 5840, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 123466854 ecr 0,nop,wscale 6], length 0
00:00:00.000289 rule 118/0(match): pass in on em0: (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 39699, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 60)
    192.168.192.4.58184 > 212.13.99.157.41635: Flags [S], cksum 0xf4d9 (correct), seq 3267903368, win 5840, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 123466854 ecr 0,nop,wscale 6], length 0
00:00:00.000787 rule 118/0(match): pass in on em0: (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 48559, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 60)
    192.168.192.4.42739 > 195.64.255.124.24110: Flags [S], cksum 0x2168 (correct), seq 3254126979, win 5840, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 123466855 ecr 0,nop,wscale 6], length 0

PF rules (118, 120):

@118 pass in log quick on em0 route-to { (em1 33.222.44.1), (rl0 17.119.27.193) } round-robin inet proto tcp from 192.168.192.0/24 to any port 1023 >< 49152 flags S/SA keep state label "USER_RULE: Allow High TCP ports" divert 52226
@120 pass in log quick on em0 route-to { (em1 33.222.44.1), (rl0 17.119.27.193) } round-robin inet proto udp from 192.168.192.0/24 to any port 1023 >< 49152 keep state label "USER_RULE: Allow High UDP ports (Traceroute and MTR)" divert 52226

Actions #12

Updated by Mike Stupalov over 14 years ago

For the test I have created more simple l7 rule:

Block-FTP -> ftp, action, block

And an appropriate firewall rule:

Rule Proto Source  Port Destination Port     Gateway     layer7
Pass TCP   LAN net *    *           21 - 22  LoadBalance Block-FTP

Too has not received desirable result:

$ ftp ftp.microsoft.com
Connected to ftp.microsoft.akadns.net.
220 Microsoft FTP Service
Name (ftp.microsoft.com:mike): ftp
331 Anonymous access allowed, send identity (e-mail name) as password.
Password:
230-Welcome to FTP.MICROSOFT.COM. Also visit http://www.microsoft.com/downloads.
230 User logged in.
Remote system type is Windows_NT.
ftp> quit
221 Thank you for using Microsoft products.

working processes ipfw-classifyd:

# ps auxww|grep ipfw-
root   14180  0.0  0.2  9200  5512  ??  Ss    8:55AM   0:00.08 /usr/local/sbin/ipfw-classifyd -n 5 -q 700 -c /tmp/Block-P2P.l7 -p 52226 -P /usr/local/share/protocols
root   42089  0.0  0.2  9200  5332  ??  SNs   9:02AM   0:00.02 /usr/local/sbin/ipfw-classifyd -n 5 -q 700 -c /tmp/Block-FTP.l7 -p 40050 -P /usr/local/share/protocols

And divert sockets:

# netstat -lna|grep div
div4       0      0 *.40051                *.*                    
div4       0      0 *.40050                *.*                    
div4       0      0 *.52227                *.*                    
div4       0      0 *.52226                *.*

Actions #13

Updated by Mike Stupalov over 14 years ago

There are no new ideas of solution of the task?
The error still is not corrected :(

Actions #14

Updated by Mike Stupalov over 14 years ago

At the big load on the channel, additional reports in a system log began to appear:

ipfw-classifyd: unable to write to divert socket: Invalid argument

Actions #15

Updated by Jonathan Puddle about 14 years ago

I've started to get these today as well. We use the L7 containers.

ipfw-classifyd: Something went wrong waiting on kqueue.

I'm also getting these quite often:

ipfw-classifyd: unable to write to divert socket: No buffer space available

Actions #16

Updated by Michel Samovojski about 14 years ago

under my side i can see the blocked rules in filter logs but torrent working

Actions #17

Updated by David Szpunar about 14 years ago

This issue has not been resolved, including for me personally (no Layer 7 rules applied), per discussion at http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=30125

Actions #18

Updated by Basel G. about 14 years ago

not working for me either. december 2 snapshot i386

Actions #19

Updated by Seth Scardefield about 14 years ago

Not working for me either. I have tried every combination of firewall rules I can think of as per conversation noted by David.

Actions #20

Updated by Chris Buechler about 14 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to New

this is broken again.

Actions #21

Updated by Ermal Luçi almost 14 years ago

I committed a change, please test newer snapshots.

Actions #22

Updated by David Szpunar almost 14 years ago

Using 2.0-BETA4 (i386) built on Sat Dec 18 09:51:58 EST 2010, I re-applied the Layer 7 rule I'd created before (which was disabled; I enabled it first) to the Default LAN to All rule with no other rules active. I have it set to block HTTP, DNS, and HTML. Web browsing still works from a host on the LAN after this change was saved and applied, so I assume it is still not working, or I am testing incorrectly.

Actions #23

Updated by Seth Scardefield almost 14 years ago

2.0-BETA4 (i386) built on Sun Dec 19 06:36:15 EST 2010

I have tried all my same combination of firewall rules (default LAN, seperate LAN, floating, etc) and it is still failing to block the torrents.

Actions #24

Updated by Ermal Luçi almost 14 years ago

Did you clear states?

Actions #25

Updated by Seth Scardefield almost 14 years ago

Yes, after every firewall rule change I make, I close uTorrent, clear the states, and start uTorrent back up.

Actions #26

Updated by Ermal Luçi almost 14 years ago

Committed another fix can you please try again with newer snapshots.

It will be worth to try even blocking http with bitorrent to see if possibly bittorrent goes on https or the regex is not good enough for most of it.

Actions #27

Updated by Seth Scardefield almost 14 years ago

Just updated to 2.0-BETA4 (i386) built on Thu Dec 23 15:39:33 EST 2010. Created a new L7 group for HTTP. Applied the new L7 group to the default LAN rule. Reset states. HTTP still works.

Actions #28

Updated by Ermal Luçi almost 14 years ago

I committed changes in kernel yet again which should impact even layer7.
Feedback from new snapshot is welcomed.

Actions #29

Updated by Seth Scardefield almost 14 years ago

2.0-BETA5 (i386) built on Wed Jan 5 12:00:59 EST 2011

Still doesn't appear to be working. Opened up the default LAN rule, switched it to TCP/UDP from Any, added my HTTP layer 7 container, and reset the states. I can still browse HTTP no problem.

So when you are committing these changes, the layer 7 stuff is working fine on your box? Maybe we aren't applying it right?

Actions #30

Updated by Max Riedel almost 14 years ago

I just tried it with ssh.
I created a new Layer7 group, enabled it, gave it a name, selected ssh as protocol action block.

Then just to make sure I added a floating rule to the top allowing all tcp traffic src any, dst any, ports any, direction out, pass on quick and selected the previously created layer 7 group.
Then I added another rule on top of my lan rules allowing all tcp traffic src any dst any ports any and selected the layer 7 group.

After that I still could open an ssh session to any remote host from the lan side. I didn't find anything regarding layer 7 in the system logs..

Actions #31

Updated by Max Riedel almost 14 years ago

Max Riedel wrote:

I just tried it with ssh.
I created a new Layer7 group, enabled it, gave it a name, selected ssh as protocol action block.

Then just to make sure I added a floating rule to the top allowing all tcp traffic src any, dst any, ports any, direction out, pass on quick and selected the previously created layer 7 group.
Then I added another rule on top of my lan rules allowing all tcp traffic src any dst any ports any and selected the layer 7 group.

After that I still could open an ssh session to any remote host from the lan side. I didn't find anything regarding layer 7 in the system logs..

Sorry forgot to mention:

I'm running (full) 2.0-BETA5 (i386)
built on Thu Jan 6 02:48:15 EST 2011

Actions #32

Updated by James Snyder almost 14 years ago

I currently get:
ipfw-classifyd: unable to write to divert socket: No buffer space available

If I have an l7 classification for p2p w/ just bittorrent, /tmp/p2p.l7:
bittorrent = queue qP2P

and I attach this classification to the main TCP/UDP floating rule.

Is there some way to adjust buffer space? Is it a bad idea to have all traffic going through this?

Actions #33

Updated by Seth Scardefield almost 14 years ago

Any update?

Actions #34

Updated by Alex Kennedy almost 14 years ago

Bump.

Does this ticket's status need to be changed to Feedback?

Actions #35

Updated by Adam Piasecki almost 14 years ago

Still not working for me, Clear states and can still browse http. I only have one layer 7 container, and http is selected to block..

I have a rule under my LAN interface for PASS TCP/UDP any any with the layer 7 container. It is the first rule in the list.

Actions #36

Updated by Seth Scardefield almost 14 years ago

I am identical to Adam. Running 2.0-RC1 (i386) built on Wed Mar 2 12:33:12 EST 2011.

I have a L7 container for blocking HTTP. I create a rule on the LAN interface above the default allow rule. I set it to Pass, TCP/UDP, any, any, and apply the HTTP L7 container. Reset states and can still browse HTTP.

Actions #37

Updated by Karsten H. over 13 years ago

Same problem here - Layer 7 filter isn't working :-(

It would be great if dev team could fix that issue for RC2! Please :-)

Actions #38

Updated by Guy B over 13 years ago

I also am able to replicate this issue, tested the same as Seth. L7 containers don't block traffic.
Happy to help in any way.

Actions #39

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 13 years ago

I was testing and getting the same behaviour as you.
Can you please restart your machines before testing if http will get blocked?

Also please apply the patch i last committed and check if it helps.
It makes the max-packets in the generated rule 10 from 5.

It will help on moving this forward.

Actions #40

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 13 years ago

Please test even with


diff --git a/etc/inc/filter.inc b/etc/inc/filter.inc
index 36e7624..18f2d66 100644
--- a/etc/inc/filter.inc
+++ b/etc/inc/filter.inc
@@ -1881,7 +1881,7 @@ function filter_generate_user_rule($rule) {
                } else
                        $aline['flags'] .= "keep state ";

-               if($noadvoptions == false || $l7_present)
+               if($noadvoptions == false)
                        if( (isset($rule['source-track']) and $rule['source-track'] <> "") or
                            (isset($rule['max']) and $rule['max'] <> "") or
                            (isset($rule['max-src-nodes']) and $rule['max-src-nodes'] <> "") or
@@ -1890,7 +1890,7 @@ function filter_generate_user_rule($rule) {
                            (isset($rule['max-src-conn-rates']) and $rule['max-src-conn-rates'] <> "") or
                            (isset($rule['max-src-states']) and $rule['max-src-states'] <> "") or
                            (isset($rule['statetimeout']) and $rule['statetimeout'] <> "") or
-                           isset($rule['sloppy']) or $l7_present) {
+                           isset($rule['sloppy'])) {
                                        $aline['flags'] .= "( ";
                                        if (isset($rule['sloppy']))
                                                $aline['flags'] .= "sloppy ";
@@ -1913,8 +1913,6 @@ function filter_generate_user_rule($rule) {
                                                $aline['flags'] .= "max-src-conn-rate " . $rule['max-src-conn-rate'] . " ";
                                                $aline['flags'] .= "/" . $rule['max-src-conn-rates'] . ", overload <virusprot> flush global ";
                                        }
-                                       if(!empty($aline['divert']))
-                                               $aline['flags'] .= "max-packets 5 ";

                                        $aline['flags'] .= " ) ";
                                }

Actions #41

Updated by Guy B over 13 years ago

Hi there,

I tested it with 2.0-RC1 (i386)
built on Tue Mar 22 16:13:31 EDT 2011

Did a restart and got this error on the filter reload:

Mar 22 20:14:28 php: : The command '/sbin/pfctl -o basic -f /tmp/rules.debug' returned exit code '1', the output was '/tmp/rules.debug:214: syntax error pfctl: Syntax error in config file: pf rules not loaded'
Mar 22 20:14:28 php: : New alert found: There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:214: syntax error pfctl: Syntax error in config file: pf rules not loaded The line in question reads [214]: pass in quick on $LAN proto tcp from 192.168.1.0/24 to any divert 49064 flags S/SA keep state ( ) label "USER_RULE: L7test"
Mar 22 20:14:28 php: : There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:214: syntax error pfctl: Syntax error in config file: pf rules not loaded - The line in question reads [214]: pass in quick on $LAN proto tcp from 192.168.1.0/24 to any divert 49064 flags S/SA keep state ( ) label "USER_RULE: L7test"

L7test is the rule I applied the L7 http block container to.
Removed the L7 container only and the rules loaded up no prob.

I'll try the code next.

Actions #42

Updated by Guy B over 13 years ago

So, same build...

Applied the first 2 changes in your code there, the 3rd seemed to have already been applied in my build..

It loaded the rules with no errors this time, I rebooted, no errors but... no L7 blocking, just like before.

Actions #43

Updated by Jonathan Puddle over 13 years ago

Using 2.0-RC1 (i386) built on Wed Mar 23 20:46:01 EDT 2011, I get the following error when I set one of my LAN rules to use a Layer7 container:

There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:286: syntax error/tmp/rules.debug:287: syntax error pfctl: Syntax error in config file: pf rules not loaded - The line in question reads [286]: pass in quick on $LAN_STAFF proto tcp from 192.168.20.0/22 to flags S/SA keep state ( ) label "NEGATE_ROUTE: Negate policy route for vpn(s)" ...

I don't know how to apply that patch, I'm afraid.

Actions #44

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 13 years ago

I committed that patch and fixed the error above which was accidental breakage by me.
So try latest snapshot with the changes and lets see how it works.

Actions #45

Updated by Jonathan Puddle over 13 years ago

Using 2.0-RC1 (i386) built on Mon Mar 28 00:15:15 EDT 2011, and the error message is now gone (thanks!), but I am still not seeing the layer 7 rules have any effect. I've tried queue and block actions, on BitTorrent and Skype traffic, and none of them appear to be having any effect.

Actions #46

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 13 years ago

Do you have on your logs any information as 'identified proto(http)' ?

Actions #47

Updated by Jonathan Puddle over 13 years ago

I can't tell. My system log is entirely saturated with "ipfw-classifyd: unable to write to divert socket: No buffer space available"

Actions #48

Updated by Rob Lister over 13 years ago

+1 for this not working.

I have a bridged interface (one WLAN and one LAN) but tried it without the bridged interface and also
with the suggested settings in tunables:

net.link.bridge.pfil_member = 0
net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge = 1

Other Traffic Shaping stuff seems to be applying when I try setting it up in the Wizards.

Am using the Captive Portal with per user bandwidth limits, but switched captive portal off and it doesn't make a difference.

Am on snapshot version:

2.0-RC1 (i386)
built on Sun Apr 3 02:54:42 EDT 2011

As supplied by auto update.

Actions #49

Updated by Seth Scardefield over 13 years ago

Still not working here either (2.0-RC1 (i386) built on Mon Apr 18 10:01:33 EDT 2011). L7 container set to block HTTP. Have it applied on the very first rule on the LAN interface (Pass, LAN, TCP/UDP, ANY/ANY). Reset the states and tried on two different machines, both can still browse HTTP.

Actions #50

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 13 years ago

I put a patch yesterday in the layer7 daemon used for classification.
It was forgetting the protocols during reload.

Please test tomorrows snapshots and report back.

Actions #51

Updated by Jonathan Puddle over 13 years ago

I've tested with a snapshot from the evening of the 3rd. It appears to be partially working now. If I create a simple rule to block HTTP, it blocks as expected, so that's good! However I have a more detailed rule that passes traffic to queues and blocks certain traffic... (prioritize Skype, block Bittorrent, etc.) and these rules are not being applied at all. (Bittorrent traffic is not blocked, if I change it to any of my queues it's also not effective at queueing the traffic).

Actions #52

Updated by Cino . over 13 years ago

I haven't tried any advance layer 7 rules yet but I do agree with Jonathan that a simple rule to block traffic(I blocked pop3) is working as expected now.

Actions #53

Updated by Rob Lister over 13 years ago

Okay,

On image 2.0-RC1 (i386)
built on Tue May 3 10:51:27 EDT 2011

Confirmed that it works as previous comments in simple config.(Block SSH etc.)

When captive portal is enabled, it stops working, however. (Passes all traffic for an authenticated user, or if they have a MAC pass-through enabled in the CP.)

Rob

Actions #54

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 13 years ago

@Jonathan,

can you show any picture of your configuration and the system log with the relevant layer7 logs(they should be like 'Found protocol (http)'.

@Rob,

layer7 should not be impacted from CP being on or not.
Possibly you need to check your rules more.

Actions #55

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 13 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Feedback

I pushed this https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense-tools/repos/mainline/commits/99030511af941f6679b15a8920e720486c3445d3 as a complementary to the system logs.

But it worked for me either queueing or limiters from layer7.

Actions #56

Updated by Seth Scardefield over 13 years ago

Same as several others. HTTP block is working now, but it still does nothing for BitTorrent.

Actions #57

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 13 years ago

can you do a packet trace for bittorrent?
You sure its not encrypted?

Keep in mind that these are regex from http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/protocols

Actions #58

Updated by Jonathan Puddle over 13 years ago

I've tested things a bit more today, and am seeing some strange behaviour. I've added some Layer7 rules, and am then watching the System log. Look down for some lines from the log. Currently, my layer7 is configured with NO block rules, only queue rules. However, it appears that only some of my queues are acceptable destinations. Specifically, 4 of my queues (I've tested multiple times) result in the log output saying "rule altq" and all the rest of my queues result in the log saying "rule action block". That sounds like a problem... unless I'm reading into this log too much. I've attached the shaper XML, so you can see the configuration of my queues. The specific queues that do work are:
qOthersMed
qOthersLow
qInternet
qVOIP

May 26 07:46:52 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: xboxlive (rule altq)
May 26 07:46:52 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: teamfortress2 (rule altq)
May 26 07:46:52 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: tar (rule action block)
May 26 07:46:52 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: subspace (rule altq)
May 26 07:46:52 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: stun (rule action block)
May 26 07:46:52 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: radmin (rule action block)
May 26 07:46:52 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: quicktime (rule action block)
May 26 07:46:52 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: postscript (rule action block)
May 26 07:46:52 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: nntp (rule action block)

Actions #59

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 13 years ago

You need to show the generated config file and you have not shown your layer7 from your config.

Actions #60

Updated by Jonathan Puddle over 13 years ago

The l7shaper config is attached, sorry, it took me a minute to find it. The log output looks similar to above, some entries report blocks and others altq.

Actions #61

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 13 years ago

You have a stray <containter/> tag what happens if you remove that?

Actions #62

Updated by Jonathan Puddle over 13 years ago

I've removed that, and there's no improvement.

Actions #63

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 13 years ago

Can you upload the generated config file i am not seeing it.

Actions #64

Updated by Jonathan Puddle over 13 years ago

<l7shaper>
<container>
<name>test</name>
<enabled>on</enabled>
<description/>
<divert_port>41744</divert_port>
<l7rules>
<protocol>100bao</protocol>
<structure>queue</structure>
<behaviour>wan</behaviour>
</l7rules>
<l7rules>
<protocol>aim</protocol>
<structure>queue</structure>
<behaviour>qVoIP</behaviour>
</l7rules>
</container>
</l7shaper>

Actions #65

Updated by Jonathan Puddle over 13 years ago

Pretty basic, as you can see. And the system logs still display:

Jun 20 23:49:07 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: aim (rule altq)
Jun 20 23:49:07 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: 100bao (rule action block)

Actions #66

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 13 years ago

Hrm i see.
Thank you for the info.
Actually you cannot use the root queue in there and i will try to fix the interface for this.

Actions #67

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 13 years ago

Can you please test with latest snapshots?

Actions #68

Updated by Jonathan Puddle over 13 years ago

Updated to the latest version, but logging is busted, so I can't say what's happening. (There's a bunch of comments in the forum on this logging issue)

Starting syslog...
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:
Shared object "libczmq.so.0" not found, required by "syslogd"

Actions #69

Updated by Jonathan Puddle over 13 years ago

Latest version has the same problem.

Jul 4 02:15:14 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: citrix (rule altq)
Jul 4 02:15:14 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: chikka (rule altq)
Jul 4 02:15:14 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: audiogalaxy (rule altq)
Jul 4 02:15:14 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: ares (rule action block)
Jul 4 02:15:14 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: aimwebcontent (rule altq)
Jul 4 02:15:14 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: aim (rule action block)
Jul 4 02:15:14 ipfw-classifyd: Loaded Protocol: 100bao (rule action block)

&lt;l7shaper&gt;
&lt;container&gt;
&lt;name&gt;layer7shaper&lt;/name&gt;
&lt;enabled&gt;on&lt;/enabled&gt;
&lt;description/&gt;
&lt;divert_port&gt;46150&lt;/divert_port&gt;
&lt;l7rules&gt;
&lt;protocol&gt;aimwebcontent&lt;/protocol&gt;
&lt;structure&gt;queue&lt;/structure&gt;
&lt;behaviour&gt;qVoIP&lt;/behaviour&gt;
&lt;/l7rules&gt;
&lt;l7rules&gt;
&lt;protocol&gt;audiogalaxy&lt;/protocol&gt;
&lt;structure&gt;queue&lt;/structure&gt;
&lt;behaviour&gt;qOthersLow&lt;/behaviour&gt;
&lt;/l7rules&gt;
&lt;l7rules&gt;
&lt;protocol&gt;citrix&lt;/protocol&gt;
&lt;structure&gt;queue&lt;/structure&gt;
&lt;behaviour&gt;qOthersMed&lt;/behaviour&gt;
&lt;/l7rules&gt;
&lt;l7rules&gt;
&lt;protocol&gt;chikka&lt;/protocol&gt;
&lt;structure&gt;queue&lt;/structure&gt;
&lt;behaviour&gt;qInternet&lt;/behaviour&gt;
&lt;/l7rules&gt;
&lt;l7rules&gt;
&lt;protocol&gt;100bao&lt;/protocol&gt;
&lt;structure&gt;queue&lt;/structure&gt;
&lt;behaviour&gt;qACK&lt;/behaviour&gt;
&lt;/l7rules&gt;
&lt;l7rules&gt;
&lt;protocol&gt;aim&lt;/protocol&gt;
&lt;structure&gt;queue&lt;/structure&gt;
&lt;behaviour&gt;qP2P&lt;/behaviour&gt;
&lt;/l7rules&gt;
&lt;l7rules&gt;
&lt;protocol&gt;ares&lt;/protocol&gt;
&lt;structure&gt;queue&lt;/structure&gt;
&lt;behaviour&gt;qOthersHigh&lt;/behaviour&gt;
&lt;/l7rules&gt;
&lt;/container&gt;
&lt;/l7shaper&gt;
Actions #70

Updated by Jonathan Puddle over 13 years ago

Is there any progress on this? I appreciate your hard work, Ermal.

Actions #71

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 13 years ago

Try with latest snaps.
It was only a cosmetic issue.

Actions #72

Updated by Jonathan Puddle over 13 years ago

Still seeing the same issue. Using 2.0-RC3 (i386) built on Tue Aug 2 19:07:41 EDT 2011

Actions #73

Updated by Ermal Luçi over 13 years ago

Try a snapshot from tomorrow since the port was not rebuild it seems.

Actions #74

Updated by Peter Baumann over 13 years ago

Hi all,
I tried with version:
2.0-RC1-IPv6 (amd64)
built on Mon Aug 15 22:32:41 EDT 2011

This seems definitely to work very well now.
I tried easy configs with l7 blocking of smtp, ssh and ftp.
It is important to clear the state table before testing the l7 blocking.

Greetings
Peter

Actions #75

Updated by Chris Buechler about 13 years ago

  • Target version changed from 2.0 to 2.0.1
Actions #76

Updated by Rob Lister about 13 years ago

Strangely, I am updated to the latest 2.0 RELEASE (nanobsd) and have defined a firewall rule with Layer7 to block
ssh and telnet just as a test, and it does not work still.

It is a bridged interface although I also tried without bridged interface with a blank system and I also couldn't get it to work (still need to try that with 2.0-RELEASE. Other tests were on earlier version.)

Any ideas?

Actions #77

Updated by Jonathan Puddle about 13 years ago

We find it generally works, however adding just a few rules sends our CPU usage to 100%. We're still on one of the RC releases. We'll reinstall on the release soon.

Actions #78

Updated by Chris Buechler about 13 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Resolved
  • Target version deleted (2.0.1)

the problems in general with layer7 were fixed before 2.0 release. The fact that pushing a ton of traffic through it sends the CPU through the roof (compared to not using it, and CPU speed dependent) is just a consequence of how it works. Hopefully we can make it more easily scalable in some fashion in the future.

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