From: Nico Schottelius <nico.schottelius@ungleich.ch>
To: WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Source IP incorrect on multi homed systems
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 21:14:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bklqd7vb.fsf@ungleich.ch> (raw)
Dear group,
I was wondering how wireguard [Linux kernel] or wireguard-go [FreeBSD]
are supposed to decide which IP address to use for replying?
I have seen both on FreeBSD and Linux that wireguard seems to use the IP
address of the outgoing interface, i.e. the one with the route returning
to the sender. However in multi homed situations, this can be wrong,
let's take this example:
19:57:24.607526 net1 In IP 194.5.220.43.60770 > 147.78.195.254.51820: UDP, length 148
19:57:24.608358 net2 Out IP 195.141.200.73.51820 > 194.5.220.43.60770: UDP, length 92
The initiator sends from 194.5.220.43 to the receiver 147.78.195.254.
Wireguard then replies with the source IP of 195.141.200.73 instead of
147.78.195.254.
As the node is multi homed, the packet might leave through any of its
uplinks and thus return with a random (unexpected) IP address and will
not pass NAT rules on firewalls and finally be dropped. F.i. in above
example the firewall drops the packet from 195.141.200.73, because there
is no session entry for that.
I have observed this behaviour both on Linux 6.1.11 as well as
wireguard-go 0.0.20220316_8,1 on FreeBSD and in both cases the
connection will break depending on which active interface is taken as
exit.
I would argue that wireguard should by default invert the IP
addresses, i.e. switch dst=src, src=dst and then reply with that,
instead of adapting an interface specific address, or is there a good
reason for the current behaviour?
Best regards,
Nico
--
Sustainable and modern Infrastructures by ungleich.ch
next reply other threads:[~2023-02-18 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-18 20:14 Nico Schottelius [this message]
[not found] ` <CAHx9msc1cNV80YU7HRmQ9gsjSEiVZ=pb31aYqfP62hy8DeuGZA@mail.gmail.com>
2023-02-18 22:34 ` Nico Schottelius
2023-02-19 0:45 ` Mike O'Connor
2023-02-19 8:01 ` Nico Schottelius
2023-02-19 9:19 ` Mikma
2023-02-19 12:04 ` Nico Schottelius
2023-02-19 12:10 ` Nico Schottelius
2023-02-19 18:59 ` Peter Linder
[not found] ` <2ed829aaed9fec59ac2a9b32c4ce0a9005b8d8b850be81c81a226791855fe4eb@mu.id>
2023-02-19 12:13 ` Nico Schottelius
2023-02-19 14:39 ` Christoph Loesch
2023-02-19 16:32 ` David Kerr
2023-02-19 16:54 ` Sebastian Hyrvall
2023-02-19 18:04 ` Janne Johansson
2023-02-19 18:08 ` Sebastian Hyrvall
2023-02-19 20:11 ` Nico Schottelius
2023-02-19 17:05 ` tlhackque
2023-02-19 18:37 ` David Kerr
2023-02-19 18:52 ` tlhackque
2023-02-19 18:42 ` tlhackque
2023-02-19 20:18 ` Nico Schottelius
2023-02-19 20:42 ` Roman Mamedov
2023-02-19 21:19 ` Nico Schottelius
2023-02-19 22:06 ` tlhackque
2023-02-19 22:42 ` Src addr code review (Was: Source IP incorrect on multi homed systems) Daniel Gröber
2023-02-20 0:28 ` 曹煜
2023-02-20 10:40 ` Nico Schottelius
2023-02-20 11:21 ` 曹煜
2023-02-20 9:47 ` Nico Schottelius
2023-02-20 20:43 ` dxld
2023-02-19 21:39 ` Source IP incorrect on multi homed systems tlhackque
[not found] ` <CADGd2DoE6TCtCxxWL7JWyNW5+yy_Pe+9MNzHznbudMWLTXQreA@mail.gmail.com>
2023-02-19 18:30 ` Fwd: " John Lauro
2023-02-19 22:28 ` tlhackque
2023-02-20 0:58 ` Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca
2023-02-19 20:02 ` Nico Schottelius
2023-02-20 11:09 Janne Johansson
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