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+Conntrack
+---------
+
+One of the important features built on top of the Netfilter framework is
+connection tracking. Connection tracking allows the kernel to keep track of all
+logical network connections or sessions, and thereby relate all of the packets
+which may make up that connection. NAT relies on this information to translate
+all related packets in the same way, and iptables can use this information to
+act as a stateful firewall.
+
+The connection state however is completely independent of any upper-level
+state, such as TCP's or SCTP's state. Part of the reason for this is that when
+merely forwarding packets, i.e. no local delivery, the TCP engine may not
+necessarily be invoked at all. Even connectionless-mode transmissions such as
+UDP, IPsec (AH/ESP), GRE and other tunneling protocols have, at least, a pseudo
+connection state. The heuristic for such protocols is often based upon a preset
+timeout value for inactivity, after whose expiration a Netfilter connection is
+dropped.
+
+Each Netfilter connection is uniquely identified by a (layer-3 protocol, source
+address, destination address, layer-4 protocol, layer-4 key) tuple. The layer-4
+key depends on the transport protocol; for TCP/UDP it is the port numbers, for
+tunnels it can be their tunnel ID, but otherwise is just zero, as if it were
+not part of the tuple. To be able to inspect the TCP port in all cases, packets
+will be mandatorily defragmented.
+
+Configuration
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+ # Protocols only for which local conntrack entries will be synced (tcp, udp, icmp, sctp)
+ set service conntrack-sync accept-protocol
+
+ # Queue size for listening to local conntrack events (in MB)
+ set service conntrack-sync event-listen-queue-size <int>
+
+ # Protocol for which expect entries need to be synchronized. (all, ftp, h323, nfs, sip, sqlnet)
+ set service conntrack-sync expect-sync
+
+ # Failover mechanism to use for conntrack-sync [REQUIRED]
+ set service conntrack-sync failover-mechanism
+
+ set service conntrack-sync cluster group <string>
+ set service conntrack-sync vrrp sync-group <1-255>
+
+ # IP addresses for which local conntrack entries will not be synced
+ set service conntrack-sync ignore-address ipv4 <x.x.x.x>
+
+ # Interface to use for syncing conntrack entries [REQUIRED]
+ set service conntrack-sync interface <ifname>
+
+ # Multicast group to use for syncing conntrack entries
+ set service conntrack-sync mcast-group <x.x.x.x>
+
+ # Queue size for syncing conntrack entries (in MB)
+ set service conntrack-sync sync-queue-size <size>
+
+Example
+^^^^^^^
+The next exemple is a simple configuration of conntrack-sync.
+
+
+.. figure:: /_static/images/service_conntrack_sync-schema.png
+ :scale: 60 %
+ :alt: Conntrack Sync Example
+
+ Conntrack Sync Example
+
+First of all, make sure conntrack is enabled by running
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+ show conntrack table ipv4
+
+If the table is empty and you have a warning message, it means conntrack is not
+enabled. To enable conntrack, just create a NAT or a firewall rule.
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+ set firewall state-policy established action accept
+
+You now should have a conntrack table
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+ $ show conntrack table ipv4
+ TCP state codes: SS - SYN SENT, SR - SYN RECEIVED, ES - ESTABLISHED,
+ FW - FIN WAIT, CW - CLOSE WAIT, LA - LAST ACK,
+ TW - TIME WAIT, CL - CLOSE, LI - LISTEN
+
+ CONN ID Source Destination Protocol TIMEOUT
+ 1015736576 10.35.100.87:58172 172.31.20.12:22 tcp [6] ES 430279
+ 1006235648 10.35.101.221:57483 172.31.120.21:22 tcp [6] ES 413310
+ 1006237088 10.100.68.100 172.31.120.21 icmp [1] 29
+ 1015734848 10.35.100.87:56282 172.31.20.12:22 tcp [6] ES 300
+ 1015734272 172.31.20.12:60286 239.10.10.14:694 udp [17] 29
+ 1006239392 10.35.101.221 172.31.120.21 icmp [1] 29
+
+Now configure conntrack-sync service on ``router1`` **and** ``router2``
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+ set service conntrack-sync accept-protocol 'tcp,udp,icmp'
+ set service conntrack-sync event-listen-queue-size '8'
+ set service conntrack-sync failover-mechanism cluster group 'GROUP' # Or VRRP
+ set service conntrack-sync interface 'eth0'
+ set service conntrack-sync mcast-group '225.0.0.50'
+ set service conntrack-sync sync-queue-size '8'
+
+On the active router, you should have informations in the internal-cache of
+conntrack-sync. The same current active connections number should be shown in
+the external-cache of the standby router
+
+On active router run:
+
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+ $ show conntrack-sync statistics
+
+ Main Table Statistics:
+
+ cache internal:
+ current active connections: 10
+ connections created: 8517 failed: 0
+ connections updated: 127 failed: 0
+ connections destroyed: 8507 failed: 0
+
+ cache external:
+ current active connections: 0
+ connections created: 0 failed: 0
+ connections updated: 0 failed: 0
+ connections destroyed: 0 failed: 0
+
+ traffic processed:
+ 0 Bytes 0 Pckts
+
+ multicast traffic (active device=eth0):
+ 868780 Bytes sent 224136 Bytes recv
+ 20595 Pckts sent 14034 Pckts recv
+ 0 Error send 0 Error recv
+
+ message tracking:
+ 0 Malformed msgs 0 Lost msgs
+
+
+
+ On standby router run:
+
+
+ $ show conntrack-sync statistics
+
+ Main Table Statistics:
+
+ cache internal:
+ current active connections: 0
+ connections created: 0 failed: 0
+ connections updated: 0 failed: 0
+ connections destroyed: 0 failed: 0
+
+ cache external:
+ current active connections: 10
+ connections created: 888 failed: 0
+ connections updated: 134 failed: 0
+ connections destroyed: 878 failed: 0
+
+ traffic processed:
+ 0 Bytes 0 Pckts
+
+ multicast traffic (active device=eth0):
+ 234184 Bytes sent 907504 Bytes recv
+ 14663 Pckts sent 21495 Pckts recv
+ 0 Error send 0 Error recv
+
+ message tracking:
+ 0 Malformed msgs 0 Lost msgs
+