Receive specific multicast message on a client connected over VPN - networking

Case:
[ Subnet A , 192.168.2.0/24, Padavan firmware based internet gw ]
[ Subnet B , 192.168.1.0/24, Padavan firmware based internet gw ]
Host from subnet A (2.155) is connected via VPN (possible options: PPTP, OpenVPN, L2TP w/o ipsec) to subnet B, and receives address, saying 1.245/32
In subnet B exists host (1.10/32) which sends multicast datagramms to 224.0.0.50:9898 ; On router I see them with
tcpdump -i br0 -c 10 dst host 224.0.0.50 and port 9898 and multicast
13:46:54.345369 IP 192.168.1.10.4321 > 224.0.0.50.9898: UDP, length 135
I am looking for solutions, to receive/forward those broadcast messages, so they could be seen by hosts, connected via VPN
On router B, which is Padavan firmware based, I have, and limited to udpxy, igmproxy utilities, if needed.
On client host, I am debian based, and generally not limited in tools.
Datagrams are proprietary protocol, i.e. not a iptv or video stream.
Any ideas are welcomed.
[UPD] Additional info - per discussion in comments
That's a very specific hardware device, which is not very chatty in ethernet terms (saying max 1-2 datagramms in 5 seconds), thus for sure should be pretty forwardable. Unfortunately, It sends status updates purely via broadcasting. in Subnet A do exist similar device + control software. Thus I am looking for a way datagramms broadcasted to 224.0.0.50:9898 in subnet B to re-appear in subnet A. May be with help of some tool. May be smcroute, may be udpxy, maybe igmproxy

As I don't like to leave resolved questions unanswered, here is currently working solution
In subnet B I have installed openVPN server endpoint, configured as L2.
In subnet A, on a control host I have installed openvpn client, that connects to subnet B, assigned interface is tapz
20: tapz: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UNKNOWN group default qlen 100
link/ether 0a:da:be:96:78:d9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.245/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global noprefixroute tapz
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::8da:beff:fe96:78d9/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
So now on a control host I have:
broadcasting from local device on physical ethernet enp5s0
sudo tcpdump -i enp5s0 -c 10 dst host 224.0.0.50 and port 9898 and multicast
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on enp5s0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes
13:55:05.642963 IP lumi-gateway-v3_miio56591509.4321 > 224.0.0.50.9898: UDP,
length 136
and now I also receive broadcasts from remote network device on tapz
sudo tcpdump -i tapz -c 10 dst host 224.0.0.50 and port 9898 and multicast
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on tapz, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes
13:53:49.141751 IP 192.168.1.10.4321 > 224.0.0.50.9898: UDP, length 135
So far that it what I was looking for I am getting necessary datagrams on a VPN client. OpenVPN on remote side can be also optimized on filter of information forwarded for multicasts.

For those who come here, with the same question.
When you will have necessary multicast on tap0,
you can create bridge from, saying, eth0 and tap0
For notes of everyone interested, who would came here.
ip link add br0 type bridge
ip link set tap0 master br0
ip link set eth0 master br0
POC - both multicasts on single interface
sudo tcpdump -i br0 dst host 224.0.0.50 and port 9898
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on br0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes
21:09:51.823632 IP 192.168.1.10.4321 > 224.0.0.50.9898: UDP, length 135
21:09:55.045138 IP 192.168.2.214.4321 > 224.0.0.50.9898: UDP, length 136

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Problem with connecting IPSec IKEv2 from Ubuntu 18.04

There is a computer with Ubuntu 18.04 it is located behind the NAT router and receives the address in the subnet 192.168.1.0/24. For example 192.168.1.11
I connect from this computer to the VPN server using the IPSec IKEv2 protocol but neither systemctl start strongswan nor ipsec start do not raise the connection, I'm can connect in only one way:
sudo charon-cmd --cert ca-cert.pem --host vpn_domain_or_IP --identity your_username
After connecting I get the address from the NAT subnet on the VPN server 10.10.10.0/24 for example 10.10.10.11 VPN works and all traffic goes through the tunnel. But the connection to the local network completely disappears, requests from subnet 192.168.1.0/24 to address 192.168.1.11 and from my computer to any of the subnet addresses 192.168.1.0/24 do not pass
Output ip a:
3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 18:d6:c7:14:ff:04 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.11/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute eth0
valid_lft 562sec preferred_lft 562sec
15: ipsec0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1400 qdisc fq_codel state UNKNOWN group default qlen 500
link/none
inet 10.10.10.11/32 scope global ipsec0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::5b2:78:42:d7/64 scope link stable-privacy
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Ping
:~# ping 192.168.1.11
PING 192.168.1.11 (192.168.1.11) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.11: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.071 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.11: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.070 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.11: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.069 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.11: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.072 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.11: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.067 ms
^C
--- 192.168.1.11 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4075ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.067/0.069/0.072/0.010 ms
:~# ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 5105ms
All configurations are identical to this resource.
The referred resource has leftsubnet=0.0.0.0/0 set. That causes the VPN connection to default to route everything through the VPN. So simplest is if You can change that. I also want to do this (so add all public-ranges in that list and omit private ranges, maybe besides a special private range to reach the servers LAN). Otherwise You have to manage Your local routing on connecting client "manually". (If both sides use strongwan it should be possible to narrow it on eighter side without breaking the SA completely, but not certain whether specifying multiple subnets works with IKEv1 between strongswan client and server or whether You would need to define multiple SAs then.)
Regarding "only way to establish connection"... I'm wondering whether that means You really have the example confiuration (ike2-rw in ipsec.conf) and started daemon and it is not working - but the example is working on server. I had problems with the Strongswan on Ubuntu 18.04 server side (the VPN gateway), it was connecting but connection came not up. The client I did not try. But I found the Ubuntu 18.04 package is broken (or was back then, a few monmth ago) and upgraded my Ubuntu. With 19.04 it works like a charm. (What is Your journal for the strongswan service saying and syslog - or better the /var/log/charon.log when You try to bring up the client as per documentation?)

How to capture TCP/IP fragmentation in tcpdump?

As we all know, the MTU is 1500 and the MSS for TCP is 1460. So when the buf used in the recv function is large than 1460 bytes, the TCP will be splitted into many parts.
I write a simple echo prog, and want to use tcpdump to check the fragmentation. However, it does not show the fragmentation when the buf is small, but shows when the buf is about 20K.
Here is the code:
Server:
import socket
import sys
import os
addr = ('10.0.0.2',10086)
server = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
server.bind(addr)
server.listen(5)
while True:
connfd, addr= server.accept()
print 'connection ip:', addr
data = connfd.recv(8192);
Client:
import socket
import os
import sys
addr = ('10.0.0.2', 10086)
client = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
client.connect(addr)
data = '';
for num in range(0,8192):
data += '1'
client.sendall(bytes(data))
Here is the tcpdump cmd I used:
sudo tcpdump -i lo port 10086 -s 1514 -v
See from the code, the buf is 8192, the MSS is 1460. So, in my opinion, the packet will be splitted into 1460, 1460, 1460, 1460, 1460, 892. But in the screenshots it not.
Also, I am not sure if this is caused by the [DF] flags. The prog is used python, so the build-in sockopt [DF] is set default? Heaven knows.
As we all know, the MTU is 1500 and the MSS for TCP is 1460
This is not true.
The MTU depends on the transport medium and a MTU of 1500 is specific to ethernet. But based on your tcpdump you are not using the ethernet interface (i.e. wired LAN connection between two machines) but have client and server on the same machine and thus use the lo interface (tcpdump -i lo ...). The MTU for the localhost interface is usually much higher:
$ ifconfig lo
lo: ... mtu 65536
$ ifconfig eth0
eth0: ... mtu 1500
Apart from that you will probably not see any fragmentation at all. If the packets are larger than the MTU you will see TCP segmentation (not fragmentation), i.e. that the OS will split the TCP stream into different segments where each if not larger than the MSS. Fragmentation instead occurs on the lower layers, for example if an IP packet needs to be split further since somewhere in the path to the target is a device with a smaller MTU.
The [DF] (don't fragment) you see is to make sure that no IP level fragmentation occurs and the packet instead gets discarded and the sender notified so that the Path MTU (minimal MTU of the Path) can be discovered and the TCP segmentation optimized for this in order to reduce the overhead of delivery. See Path MTU discovery for more information.
I'd like to add that you wont see fragments with your tcpdump filter because you are filtering on a port number. IP fragments don't really have a port number. Just the packet id and offset and also the protocol number. So you should filter on UDP with the IP src or destination.
Or use this filter to see fragments:
tcpdump -i eth1 '((ip[6:2] > 0) and (not ip[6] = 64))'
Credit: https://github.com/SergK/cheatsheat-tcpdump/blob/master/tcpdump_advanced_filters.txt
You are sending data from localhost to localhost, inside one host.
So, the MTU of ethernet (1500) won't limit size of MSS, because the data is not going over the ethernet.
Try to repeat the test between two different hosts.

What is the relation between docker0 and eth0?

I know by default docker creates a virtual bridge docker0, and all container network are linked to docker0.
As illustrated above:
container eth0 is paired with vethXXX
vethXXX is linked to docker0 same as a machine linked to switch
But what is the relation between docker0 and host eth0?
More specifically:
When a packet flows from container to docker0, how does it know it will be forwarded to eth0, and then to the outside world?
When an external packet arrives to eth0, why it is forwarded to docker0 then container? instead of processing it or drop it?
Question 2 can be a little confusing, I will keep it there and explained a little more:
It is a return packet that initialed by container(in question 1): since the outside does not know container network, the packet is sent to host eth0. How it is forwarded to container? I mean, there must be some place to store the information, how can I check it?
Thanks in advance!
After reading the answer and official network articles, I find the following diagram more accurate that docker0 and eth0 has no direct link,instead they can forward packets:
http://dockerone.com/uploads/article/20150527/e84946a8e9df0ac6d109c35786ac4833.png
There is no direct link between the default docker0 bridge and the hosts ethernet devices. If you use the --net=host option for a container then the hosts network stack will be available in the container.
When a packet flows from container to docker0, how does it know it will be forwarded to eth0, and then to the outside world?
The docker0 bridge has the .1 address of the Docker network assigned to it, this is usually something around a 172.17 or 172.18.
$ ip address show dev docker0
8: docker0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default
link/ether 02:42:03:47:33:c1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 172.17.0.1/16 scope global docker0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Containers are assigned a veth interface which is attached to the docker0 bridge.
$ bridge link
10: vethcece7e5 state UP #(null): <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 master docker0 state forwarding priority 32 cost 2
Containers created on the default Docker network receive the .1 address as their default route.
$ docker run busybox ip route show
default via 172.17.0.1 dev eth0
172.17.0.0/16 dev eth0 src 172.17.0.3
Docker uses NAT MASQUERADE for outbound traffic from there and it will follow the standard outbound routing on the host, which may or may not involve eth0.
$ iptables -t nat -vnL POSTROUTING
Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
0 0 MASQUERADE all -- * !docker0 172.17.0.0/16 0.0.0.0/0
iptables handles the connection tracking and return traffic.
When an external packet arrives to eth0, why it is forwarded to docker0 then container? instead of processing it or drop it?
If you are asking about the return path for outbound traffic from the container, see iptables above as the MASQUERADE will map the connection back through.
If you mean new inbound traffic, Packets are not forwarded into a container by default. The standard way to achieve this is to setup a port mapping. Docker launches a daemon that listens on the host on port X and forwards to the container on port Y.
I'm not sure why NAT wasn't used for inbound traffic as well. I've run into some issues trying to map large numbers of ports into containers which led to mapping real world interfaces completely into containers.
You can detect the relation by network interface iflink from a container and ifindex on the host machine.
Get iflink from a container:
$ docker exec ID cat /sys/class/net/eth0/iflink
17253
Then find this ifindex among interfaces on the host machine:
$ grep -l 17253 /sys/class/net/veth*/ifindex
/sys/class/net/veth02455a1/ifindex

How to forward packet from eth0 to a tun/tap device?

Here is the topo: HostA(eth0) ---- (eth0)HostB
I have created a tun/tap device on HostB, for say tun0 or tap0. When eth0 of HostB receives a packet from HostA, maybe a ICMPv6(NS, echo request, etc.) or a UDP/TCP packet(encapsulated with IPv6 header), I want to forward this packet from eth0 to tap0. After doing something to this packet, I also want to send a reply back to HostA, through tap0 and eth0.
I cannot find a way to do that, can some one help me or give some hints?
This is an extremely basic routing question, probably unsuitable for Stack Overflow.
You need something like this on Host B:
HostB# sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
HostB# ip -6 addr add 2001:db8:0:0::1/64 dev eth0
HostB# ip -6 addr add 2001:db8:0:1::1/64 dev tun0
Then on Host A:
HostA# ip -6 addr add 2001:db8:0:0::2/64 dev eth0
HostA# ip -6 route add default via 2001:db8:0:0::1 dev eth0
HostA# ping6 2001:db8:0:1::2 # <-- should work if that host exists on tun0

Pinging between two tap devices on the same machine

I have two virtual TAP interfaces tap0 and tap1 on my machine. They have IPs 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 respectively. They are both connected to each other using socat. Both have netmasks 255.255.255.0 (and hence are on the same subnet). With this setup, I try pinging 10.0.0.2 through tap0 and vice versa. This doesn't seem to work for some reason. Although tcpdump shows ARP packets from tap0 reaching tap1, there are no ARP replies and hence no ICMP requests and hence no ICMP replies. Using a TUN device instead of a TAP device bypasses the ARP request/response cycle, but now the ICMP requests show up at tap1 with no ICMP response coming back.
I have tried a couple of things like enabling ip_forward ( echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward) and disabling reverse path filtering ( echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/tap0/rp_filter and echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/tap1/rp_filter ).
Here are the commands to reproduce my problem :
sudo socat TUN:10.0.0.1/24,tun-type=tap TUN:10.0.0.2/24,tun-type=tap
sudo ifconfig tap0 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
sudo ifconfig tap1 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
ping -Itap0 10.0.0.2
tcpdump -Itap0 -n
tcpdump -Itap1 -n

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