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Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP

Started byHenggi <henggi667@gmail.com>
First post2023-10-24 14:30 +0200
Last post2023-10-24 18:20 +0200
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  Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP Henggi <henggi667@gmail.com> - 2023-10-24 14:30 +0200
    Re: Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-10-24 15:10 +0200
      Re: Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP Henggi <henggi667@gmail.com> - 2023-10-24 15:30 +0200
        Re: Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-10-24 15:40 +0200
          Re: Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP Henggi <henggi667@gmail.com> - 2023-10-24 16:10 +0200
    Re: Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2023-10-24 15:40 +0200
      Re: Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP Henggi <henggi667@me.com> - 2023-10-24 16:50 +0200
        Re: Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2023-10-24 17:50 +0200
          Re: Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP Henggi <henggi667@gmail.com> - 2023-10-24 18:40 +0200
            Re: Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2023-10-25 10:40 +0200
      Re: Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-10-24 17:30 +0200
        Re: Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP Henggi <henggi667@gmail.com> - 2023-10-24 17:50 +0200
    Re: Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-10-24 16:40 +0200
      Re: Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP Henggi <henggi667@gmail.com> - 2023-10-24 18:20 +0200

#262655 — Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP

FromHenggi <henggi667@gmail.com>
Date2023-10-24 14:30 +0200
SubjectNetwork tcp/iptables issue with XRDP
Message-ID<HsoHM-vVA-29@gated-at.bofh.it>

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Hi list,

Completely stuck here, any clue appreciated!

Trying to bring up XRDP service on Debian 11-bullsyeye (arm64, incl. backports, fully up-to-date) which is only listening on „lo“ interface (not eth0) even netstat indicates otherwise:
-> incoming tcp syn/ack on localhost interfact (lo) works fine
-> incoming tcp syn/ack on eth0 interface seems not to reach app listening process (while other services on same host are working just fine via the network - so it’s not an „physical" network issue).
-> iptables are cleared and not aware of any other netfilter running… 


---------------------
- XRDP is listening on 3389:

root@server:~# netstat -tulpn |grep -i rdp
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3389            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      657/xrdp
tcp6       0      0 127.0.0.1:3350          :::*                    LISTEN      615/xrdp-sesman


---------------------
- using following XRDP pkg versions:

root@server:~# dpkg -l |grep -i rdp
ii  xorgxrdp                           1:0.2.17-1~bpo11+rpt1                 arm64        Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) modules for X.org
ii  xrdp                               0.9.21.1-1~deb11u1                    arm64        Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server

---------------------
- TCP connection test from localhost to interface „lo“ works fine:

root@server:~# nc -zv $(hostname -I) 3389
Connection to 192.168.178.156 3389 port [tcp/ms-wbt-server] succeeded!
root@server:~# nc -zv localhost 3389
Connection to localhost (127.0.0.1) 3389 port [tcp/ms-wbt-server] succeeded!

…these connections also appear in xrdp log
…tcpdump of lo interface (successful) of tcp-syn/ack attached as evidence

---------------------
- When trying same connection test from other host in same LAN it times out (again, other ports/services run just fine - so network itself is not the issue)

client:~ user$ nc -zv 192.168.178.156 3389
nc: connectx to 192.168.178.156 port 3389 (tcp) failed: Operation timed out

…while nothing is logged in xrdp log
...tcpdump of eth0 interface (failed) of tcp-syn (no tcp-ack) attached as evidence

---------------------
- iptables on server are cleared/open (firewalld or other firewall frameworks are not used/installed). Evidence of cleared iptables (nft) and iptables-legacy attached.

---------------------
- tcpdump shows tcp-syn input on „eth0" but never ack’ while tcpdump on „lol“ shows correct syn/ack on tcp connection test (see tcpdump output attached)

---------------------
- Observation on tcp listening behaviour from XRDP configuration in /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini (file attached)
— by default xrdp.ini listening config is set to "port=3389“ (which is expected to listen on ipv4 && ipv6 in parallel as I understand). However using that seems only to listen on tcp4 according to „netstat“
— therefore changed listening config to "port=tcp://:3389“ (which is exprected to listen on ip4/tcp only)… which seems todo that as per netstat output shown above
—> This isn’t necessarily an issue but since my issue is related to the listening on network interface I thought it’s worth to point-out this observation.


Thanks for any clue!

Best,
Henggi



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#262656

FromDan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Date2023-10-24 15:10 +0200
Message-ID<Hspkt-wwV-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#262655
Henggi wrote: 
> Hi list,
> 
> Completely stuck here, any clue appreciated!
> 
> — by default xrdp.ini listening config is set to "port=3389“ (which is expected to listen on ipv4 && ipv6 in parallel as I understand). However using that seems only to listen on tcp4 according to „netstat“
> — therefore changed listening config to "port=tcp://:3389“ (which is exprected to listen on ip4/tcp only)… which seems todo that as per netstat output shown above


man xrdp,ini:

address=ip address
    Specify xrdp listening address. If not specified, defaults to 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces).
...
port=port
    Specify TCP port to listen on for incoming connections. The default for RDP is 3389.


Remove or comment out all address and port lines from the config and
restart xrdp.

Show us the TCP listener on the machine after that:

ss -tlnp | grep 3389


Then try connecting from another machine.

-dsr-

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#262657

FromHenggi <henggi667@gmail.com>
Date2023-10-24 15:30 +0200
Message-ID<HspDP-wDD-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#262656
> On 24 Oct 2023, at 14:46, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> 
> Henggi wrote: 
>> Hi list,
>> 
>> Completely stuck here, any clue appreciated!
>> 
>> — by default xrdp.ini listening config is set to "port=3389“ (which is expected to listen on ipv4 && ipv6 in parallel as I understand). However using that seems only to listen on tcp4 according to „netstat“
>> — therefore changed listening config to "port=tcp://:3389“ (which is exprected to listen on ip4/tcp only)… which seems todo that as per netstat output shown above
> 
> 
> man xrdp,ini:
> 
> address=ip address
>    Specify xrdp listening address. If not specified, defaults to 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces).
Never had any address specified in xrdp.ini… so it’s expected to listen to default 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces) which it did already before acc. to netstat (as mentioned in prev. email)

> ...
> port=port
>    Specify TCP port to listen on for incoming connections. The default for RDP is 3389.
> 
> 
> Remove or comment out all address and port lines from the config and
> restart xrdp.
> 
> Show us the TCP listener on the machine after that:
> 
> ss -tlnp | grep 3389

- when using „port=tcp://:3389“ in xrdp.ini:
root@server:~# ss -tlnp | grep 3389
LISTEN 0      2                 0.0.0.0:3389       0.0.0.0:*    users:(("xrdp",pid=96436,fd=11))

- when using using „port=3389“ in xrdp.ini:
root@mail:~# ss -tlnp | grep 3389
LISTEN 0      2                       *:3389             *:*    users:(("xrdp",pid=202831,fd=11))

-> either way behaviour is the same, tcp connection works from localhost but not from other host.

> 
> 
> Then try connecting from another machine.
> 
> -dsr-

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#262659

FromDan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Date2023-10-24 15:40 +0200
Message-ID<HspNv-wHd-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#262657
Henggi wrote: 
> 
> > On 24 Oct 2023, at 14:46, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> > 
> - when using „port=tcp://:3389“ in xrdp.ini:
> root@server:~# ss -tlnp | grep 3389
> LISTEN 0      2                 0.0.0.0:3389       0.0.0.0:*    users:(("xrdp",pid=96436,fd=11))
> 
> - when using using „port=3389“ in xrdp.ini:
> root@mail:~# ss -tlnp | grep 3389
> LISTEN 0      2                       *:3389             *:*    users:(("xrdp",pid=202831,fd=11))


> -> either way behaviour is the same, tcp connection works from localhost but not from other host.

Note that "0.0.0.0" means IPv4 only, and * means v4 and v6 will
be accepted.

Given the information that you have supplied, there is a packet
dropping mechanism of some kind between your process on the
other machine and this one. It could be on that other machine,
on this machine, or in some network device between them.

Can you show that other ports on this machine are reachable from
the other one? Say, 22?

-dsr-

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#262661

FromHenggi <henggi667@gmail.com>
Date2023-10-24 16:10 +0200
Message-ID<Hsqgx-x7A-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#262659
> On 24 Oct 2023, at 15:14, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> 
> Henggi wrote: 
>> 
>>> On 24 Oct 2023, at 14:46, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
>>> 
>> - when using „port=tcp://:3389“ in xrdp.ini:
>> root@server:~# ss -tlnp | grep 3389
>> LISTEN 0      2                 0.0.0.0:3389       0.0.0.0:*    users:(("xrdp",pid=96436,fd=11))
>> 
>> - when using using „port=3389“ in xrdp.ini:
>> root@mail:~# ss -tlnp | grep 3389
>> LISTEN 0      2                       *:3389             *:*    users:(("xrdp",pid=202831,fd=11))
> 
> 
>> -> either way behaviour is the same, tcp connection works from localhost but not from other host.
> 
> Note that "0.0.0.0" means IPv4 only, and * means v4 and v6 will
> be accepted.
I know… however, the reason why I pointed our the port config from xrdp.ini in 1st place, is that (according to "netstat -tulpn“) xrdp configured for * (to listen on tcp4 && tcp6) does ONLY listen on tcp6 but not tcp4.

- when using using „port=3389“ in xrdp.ini:
root@server:~# netstat -tulpn |grep -i rdp
tcp6       0      0 :::3389                 :::*                    LISTEN      202831/xrdp
tcp6       0      0 127.0.0.1:3350          :::*                    LISTEN      202821/xrdp-sesman

- when using „port=tcp://:3389“ in xrdp.ini:
root@server:~# netstat -tulpn |grep -i rdp
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3389            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      204201/xrdp
tcp6       0      0 127.0.0.1:3350          :::*                    LISTEN      204191/xrdp-sesman

> 
> Given the information that you have supplied, there is a packet
> dropping mechanism of some kind between your process on the
> other machine and this one. It could be on that other machine,
> on this machine, or in some network device between them.
My assumption too (unless it’s a weird bug within used pkg version of xrdp)… thats why i provided evidence of the cleared iptables & tcpdump before
How to figure out where exactly the connection gets dropped (e.g. which process or kernel module is dropping it)?

> 
> Can you show that other ports on this machine are reachable from
> the other one? Say, 22?
client:~ user$ nc -zv 192.168.178.156 22
Connection to 192.168.178.156 port 22 [tcp/ssh] succeeded!
client:~ user$ nc -zv 192.168.178.156 25
Connection to 192.168.178.156 port 25 [tcp/smtp] succeeded!
client:~ user$ nc -zv 192.168.178.156 3389
nc: connectx to 192.168.178.156 port 3389 (tcp) failed: Operation timed out

> -dsr-

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#262658

FromArno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de>
Date2023-10-24 15:40 +0200
Message-ID<HspNv-wHd-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#262655
Hi Henggi, all,

Am 24.10.2023 um 14:04 schrieb Henggi:
> Hi list,
> 
> Completely stuck here, any clue appreciated!
> 
> Trying to bring up XRDP service on Debian 11-bullsyeye (arm64, incl. backports, fully up-to-date) which is only listening on „lo“ interface (not eth0) even netstat indicates otherwise:
> -> incoming tcp syn/ack on localhost interfact (lo) works fine
> -> incoming tcp syn/ack on eth0 interface seems not to reach app listening process (while other services on same host are working just fine via the network - so it’s not an „physical" network issue).
> -> iptables are cleared and not aware of any other netfilter running…

I suggest to verify the other netfiler options.

Recently I encountered something similar, and my usual test for local 
firewall being active,

iptables -L -n

came back with policies "accept" all over the place, and no particular 
rules.

Took me a while to understand that firewalld can still do its job.

So, probably useful to check with

systemctl status firewalld

and use firewallcmd in an appropriate manner, if you find that to be active.

Good luck!

Arno

-- 
Arno Lehmann

IT-Service Lehmann
Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück

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#262667

FromHenggi <henggi667@me.com>
Date2023-10-24 16:50 +0200
Message-ID<HsqTg-xmj-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#262658
> On 24 Oct 2023, at 15:30, Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Henggi, all,
Hi Arno, thanks for your reply!
> 
> Am 24.10.2023 um 14:04 schrieb Henggi:
>> Hi list,
>> Completely stuck here, any clue appreciated!
>> Trying to bring up XRDP service on Debian 11-bullsyeye (arm64, incl. backports, fully up-to-date) which is only listening on „lo“ interface (not eth0) even netstat indicates otherwise:
>> -> incoming tcp syn/ack on localhost interfact (lo) works fine
>> -> incoming tcp syn/ack on eth0 interface seems not to reach app listening process (while other services on same host are working just fine via the network - so it’s not an „physical" network issue).
>> -> iptables are cleared and not aware of any other netfilter running…
> 
> I suggest to verify the other netfiler options.
> 
> Recently I encountered something similar, and my usual test for local firewall being active,
> 
> iptables -L -n
> 
> came back with policies "accept" all over the place, and no particular rules.
> 
> Took me a while to understand that firewalld can still do its job.
> 
> So, probably useful to check with
> 
> systemctl status firewalld
As I mentioned in my 1st email, I think (afaik) that no other netfitler module/service is running.

root@server:~# systemctl status firewalld
Unit firewalld.service could not be found.


However, then there are kernel modules loaded when looking for „net OR filter OR fire OR ip“ as followed (of which I assume are just loaded as part of the default base system but not doing anyhting - how to be sure of it):

root@server:~# lsmod |egrep -i "net|filter|fire|ip"
inet_diag              28672  1 tcp_diag
iptable_nat            16384  0
nf_nat                 49152  1 iptable_nat
iptable_filter         16384  0
nf_defrag_ipv6         20480  1 nf_conntrack
nf_defrag_ipv4         16384  1 nf_conntrack
nfnetlink              20480  1 nf_tables
ip_tables              32768  2 iptable_filter,iptable_nat
x_tables               53248  3 iptable_filter,ip_tables,iptable_nat
ipv6                  557056  20


> 
> and use firewallcmd in an appropriate manner, if you find that to be active.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Arno
> 
> -- 
> Arno Lehmann
> 
> IT-Service Lehmann
> Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück
> 

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#262672

FromArno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de>
Date2023-10-24 17:50 +0200
Message-ID<HsrPj-y2e-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#262667
Hello,

Am 24.10.2023 um 16:19 schrieb Henggi:
...
> As I mentioned in my 1st email, I think (afaik) that no other netfitler module/service is running.

My anecdote was intended to illustrate that beliefs are not really good 
tools to diagnose problems ;-)

> root@server:~# systemctl status firewalld
> Unit firewalld.service could not be found.

Ok, so whatever it is, it's not firewalld managed on the local host.

What does

nft list ruleset

show?
(Unfortunately, this is all I know about netfilter diagnostics... and I 
couldn't even get this far without internet search engine :-)

> However, then there are kernel modules loaded when looking for „net OR filter OR fire OR ip“ as followed (of which I assume are just loaded as part of the default base system but not doing anyhting - how to be sure of it):
> 
> root@server:~# lsmod |egrep -i "net|filter|fire|ip"
> inet_diag              28672  1 tcp_diag
> iptable_nat            16384  0
> nf_nat                 49152  1 iptable_nat
> iptable_filter         16384  0
> nf_defrag_ipv6         20480  1 nf_conntrack
> nf_defrag_ipv4         16384  1 nf_conntrack
> nfnetlink              20480  1 nf_tables
> ip_tables              32768  2 iptable_filter,iptable_nat
> x_tables               53248  3 iptable_filter,ip_tables,iptable_nat
> ipv6                  557056  20
Just for reference:

# lsmod | grep -E '^nf' | wc -l
34


so there may be a lot more, which your grep filter hid from you.

I'm also noticing that fwbuilder, my tool of choice, seems to be 
scratching on the border line between "stable" and "legacy"...

Cheers,

Arno

-- 
Arno Lehmann

IT-Service Lehmann
Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück

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#262676

FromHenggi <henggi667@gmail.com>
Date2023-10-24 18:40 +0200
Message-ID<HssBI-yzh-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#262672
> On 24 Oct 2023, at 17:36, Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
Hi Arno,
> 
> Am 24.10.2023 um 16:19 schrieb Henggi:
> ...
>> As I mentioned in my 1st email, I think (afaik) that no other netfitler module/service is running.
> 
> My anecdote was intended to illustrate that beliefs are not really good tools to diagnose problems ;-)
fair enough :)
> 
>> root@server:~# systemctl status firewalld
>> Unit firewalld.service could not be found.
> 
> Ok, so whatever it is, it's not firewalld managed on the local host.
> 
> What does
> 
> nft list ruleset
> 
> show?
> (Unfortunately, this is all I know about netfilter diagnostics... and I couldn't even get this far without internet search engine :-)

Oh wow… that’s interesting. I had no idea about „nft“ (I just knew „iptables-nft“) which seem to be very different.
I think I have dig down where those „nft" rules are coming from while iptables-nft is completely empty. Thanks, great clue!


------------
root@server:~# iptables-nft -L -v
# Warning: iptables-legacy tables present, use iptables-legacy to see them
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination

------------
root@server:~# iptables-legacy -L -v
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 2628K packets, 266M bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 2316K packets, 237M bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination

------------
root@server:~# nft list ruleset
table inet filter {
        chain input {
                type filter hook input priority filter; policy accept;
                iif "lo" accept
                ip protocol icmp icmp type echo-request limit rate over 10/second burst 4 packets drop
                ip6 nexthdr ipv6-icmp icmpv6 type echo-request limit rate over 10/second burst 4 packets drop
                ct state established,related accept
                ip6 nexthdr ipv6-icmp icmpv6 type { destination-unreachable, packet-too-big, time-exceeded, parameter-problem, echo-request, mld-listener-query, mld-listener-report, mld-listener-done, nd-router-solicit, nd-rou
                ip protocol icmp icmp type { destination-unreachable, echo-request, router-advertisement, router-solicitation, time-exceeded, parameter-problem } accept
                ip protocol igmp accept
                tcp dport 22 accept
                tcp dport 80 accept
                tcp dport 443 accept
                tcp dport 25 accept
                tcp dport 587 accept
                tcp dport 465 accept
                tcp dport 110 accept
                tcp dport 995 accept
                tcp dport 143 accept
                tcp dport 993 accept
                counter packets 355822 bytes 22452621 drop
        }

        chain output {
                type filter hook output priority filter; policy accept;
        }

        chain forward {
                type filter hook forward priority filter; policy drop;
        }
}



> 
>> However, then there are kernel modules loaded when looking for „net OR filter OR fire OR ip“ as followed (of which I assume are just loaded as part of the default base system but not doing anyhting - how to be sure of it):
>> root@server:~# lsmod |egrep -i "net|filter|fire|ip"
>> inet_diag              28672  1 tcp_diag
>> iptable_nat            16384  0
>> nf_nat                 49152  1 iptable_nat
>> iptable_filter         16384  0
>> nf_defrag_ipv6         20480  1 nf_conntrack
>> nf_defrag_ipv4         16384  1 nf_conntrack
>> nfnetlink              20480  1 nf_tables
>> ip_tables              32768  2 iptable_filter,iptable_nat
>> x_tables               53248  3 iptable_filter,ip_tables,iptable_nat
>> ipv6                  557056  20
> Just for reference:
> 
> # lsmod | grep -E '^nf' | wc -l
> 34
> 
> 
> so there may be a lot more, which your grep filter hid from you.

Good point, thx! Indeed modules where missed with my simple string grep….

root@server:~# lsmod | grep -E '^nf'
nf_nat                 49152  1 iptable_nat
nft_ct                 20480  1
nf_conntrack          143360  2 nf_nat,nft_ct
nf_defrag_ipv6         20480  1 nf_conntrack
nf_defrag_ipv4         16384  1 nf_conntrack
nft_limit              16384  2
nf_tables             237568  93 nft_ct,nft_limit
nfnetlink              20480  1 nf_tables

> 
> I'm also noticing that fwbuilder, my tool of choice, seems to be scratching on the border line between "stable" and "legacy"...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Arno

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#262710

FromAnssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi>
Date2023-10-25 10:40 +0200
Message-ID<HsHAJ-ImC-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#262676
Henggi <henggi667@gmail.com> writes:

> Oh wow… that’s interesting. I had no idea about „nft“ (I just knew „iptables-nft“) which seem to be very different.
> I think I have dig down where those „nft" rules are coming from while iptables-nft is completely empty. Thanks, great clue!

Typically you'd have a /etc/nftables.conf with the rules for nft. Or at
least that's what I do.

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#262671

FromCharles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>
Date2023-10-24 17:30 +0200
Message-ID<HsrvX-xVi-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#262658
On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 15:30:14 +0200
Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> wrote:

> Recently I encountered something similar, and my usual test for local 
> firewall being active,
> 
> iptables -L -n
> 
> came back with policies "accept" all over the place, and no
> particular rules.
> 
> Took me a while to understand that firewalld can still do its job.



-- 
Does anybody read signatures any more?

https://charlescurley.com
https://charlescurley.com/blog/

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#262673

FromHenggi <henggi667@gmail.com>
Date2023-10-24 17:50 +0200
Message-ID<HsrPj-y2e-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#262671

> On 24 Oct 2023, at 17:22, Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 15:30:14 +0200
> Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> wrote:
> 
>> Recently I encountered something similar, and my usual test for local 
>> firewall being active,
>> 
>> iptables -L -n
>> 
>> came back with policies "accept" all over the place, and no
>> particular rules.
>> 
>> Took me a while to understand that firewalld can still do its job.

firewalld not installed:

root@server:~# systemctl status firewalld
Unit firewalld.service could not be found.

> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Does anybody read signatures any more?
> 
> https://charlescurley.com
> https://charlescurley.com/blog/
> 

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#262666

FromMax Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Date2023-10-24 16:40 +0200
Message-ID<HsqJz-xhY-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#262655
On 24/10/2023 19:04, Henggi wrote:
> - iptables on server are cleared/open (firewalld or other firewall 
> frameworks are not used/installed).

Nowadays nft or iptables is not the only option to drop packets. Another 
one is eBPF used e.g. by systemd.

I have the following link in my notes, but I have not tried the 
suggested tool

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/configuring_and_managing_networking/capturing-network-packets_configuring-and-managing-networking

44.1. Using xdpdump to capture network packets including packets dropped 
by XDP programs

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#262675

FromHenggi <henggi667@gmail.com>
Date2023-10-24 18:20 +0200
Message-ID<Hssim-ysu-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#262666
> On 24 Oct 2023, at 16:33, Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 24/10/2023 19:04, Henggi wrote:
>> - iptables on server are cleared/open (firewalld or other firewall frameworks are not used/installed).
> 
> Nowadays nft or iptables is not the only option to drop packets. Another one is eBPF used e.g. by systemd.
> 
> I have the following link in my notes, but I have not tried the suggested tool
> 
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/configuring_and_managing_networking/capturing-network-packets_configuring-and-managing-networking
> 
> 44.1. Using xdpdump to capture network packets including packets dropped by XDP programs
> 



Thanks… but xdpdump shows the same as tcpdump did before… which is printing all the tcp syn (seq) requests but NO tcp-ack (confirming tcp connection) going back from xrdp to client…

root@server:~# xdpdump -i eth0 -w - | tcpdump -r - port not 22 and host 192.168.178.62
WARNING: Specified interface does not have an XDP program loaded,
         capturing in legacy mode!
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes
reading from file -, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), snapshot length 262144
17:49:41.215494 IP client.53915 > server.ms-wbt-server: Flags [S], seq 589092217, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 6,nop,nop,TS val 4267962705 ecr 0,sackOK,eol], length 0
17:49:41.316585 IP client.53915 > server.ms-wbt-server: Flags [S], seq 589092217, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 6,nop,nop,TS val 4267962806 ecr 0,sackOK,eol], length 0
17:49:41.417424 IP client.53915 > server.ms-wbt-server: Flags [S], seq 589092217, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 6,nop,nop,TS val 4267962907 ecr 0,sackOK,eol], length 0
17:49:41.517658 IP client.53915 > server.ms-wbt-server: Flags [S], seq 589092217, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 6,nop,nop,TS val 4267963008 ecr 0,sackOK,eol], length 0
17:49:41.618765 IP client.53915 > server.ms-wbt-server: Flags [S], seq 589092217, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 6,nop,nop,TS val 4267963109 ecr 0,sackOK,eol], length 0
17:49:41.719768 IP client.53915 > server.ms-wbt-server: Flags [S], seq 589092217, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 6,nop,nop,TS val 4267963210 ecr 0,sackOK,eol], length 0
17:49:41.920573 IP client.53915 > server.ms-wbt-server: Flags [S], seq 589092217, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 6,nop,nop,TS val 4267963410 ecr 0,sackOK,eol], length 0
17:49:42.319819 IP client.53915 > server.ms-wbt-server: Flags [S], seq 589092217, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 6,nop,nop,TS val 4267963810 ecr 0,sackOK,eol], length 0
17:49:43.120533 IP client.53915 > server.ms-wbt-server: Flags [S], seq 589092217, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 6,nop,nop,TS val 4267964610 ecr 0,sackOK,eol], length 0
17:49:44.720237 IP client.53915 > server.ms-wbt-server: Flags [S], seq 589092217, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 6,nop,nop,TS val 4267966210 ecr 0,sackOK,eol], length 0
17:49:47.921455 IP client.53915 > server.ms-wbt-server: Flags [S], seq 589092217, win 65535, options [mss 1460,sackOK,eol], length 0
^C
74 packets captured
0 packets dropped by kernel



…while doing the same test from localhost (via „lo“ interface) shows tcp syn + ack correctly as expected:

root@server:~# xdpdump -i lo -w - | tcpdump -r - port 3389
WARNING: Specified interface does not have an XDP program loaded,
         capturing in legacy mode!
listening on lo, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes
reading from file -, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), snapshot length 262144
17:57:51.931307 IP server.33514 > server.ms-wbt-server: Flags [S], seq 2728692331, win 65495, options [mss 65495,sackOK,TS val 712510363 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
17:57:51.931365 IP server.ms-wbt-server > server.33514: Flags [S.], seq 2692007133, ack 2728692332, win 65483, options [mss 65495,sackOK,TS val 712510363 ecr 712510363,nop,wscale 7], length 0
17:57:51.931419 IP server.33514 > server.ms-wbt-server: Flags [.], ack 1, win 512, options [nop,nop,TS val 712510363 ecr 712510363], length 0
17:57:51.931734 IP server.33514 > server.ms-wbt-server: Flags [F.], seq 1, ack 1, win 512, options [nop,nop,TS val 712510363 ecr 712510363], length 0
17:57:51.933177 IP server.ms-wbt-server > server.33514: Flags [.], ack 2, win 512, options [nop,nop,TS val 712510365 ecr 712510363], length 0
17:57:51.935228 IP server.ms-wbt-server > server.33514: Flags [F.], seq 1, ack 2, win 512, options [nop,nop,TS val 712510367 ecr 712510363], length 0
17:57:51.935287 IP server.33514 > server.ms-wbt-server: Flags [.], ack 2, win 512, options [nop,nop,TS val 712510367 ecr 712510367], length 0
^C
7 packets captured
0 packets dropped by kernel

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