[LARTC] OUTPUT chain marking after or before routing?

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Hello dear Catalin,
Well the only mistake you made is that you placed hte mark filters on 
the output of the interface.
I suggest you to park them in the PREROUTING chain and not in the 
output. It works fine to me.
Best regards
  Stamatis
Catalin Borcea wrote:

>Hello,
>I have a Linux box with 3 network adapters:
>eth0 : IP:10.200.0.1/24
>eth1/ppp0: IP:80.97.105.98
>eth2 : IP:192.168.1.100/24
>
>I want that all the Internet traffic goes to the eth2 interface except the
>smtp traffic that I want to go to the ppp0 interface. The main routing table
>is:
>172.16.20.1 dev ppp0  proto kernel  scope link  src 80.97.105.98
>192.168.1.0/24 dev eth2  scope link
>10.200.0.0/24 dev eth0  scope link
>192.168.254.0/24 dev eth1  scope link
>127.0.0.0/8 dev lo  scope link
>default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth2
>
>
>I decided to use netfilter to mark the packets that leave the gateway from
>and to the smtp port. I do this in the OUTPUT chain of the mangle table. So,
>according to the docs, the marking will occur before routing for locally
>generated packets:
>
>$IT -t mangle -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport smtp -j MARK --set-mark 2
>$IT -t mangle -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport smtp -j MARK --set-mark 2
>
>Then I define a new routing table (named "smtp") and a rule to redirect smtp
>packets to this table. The output of "ip rule ls" is:
># 0:      from all lookup local
># 32765:  from all fwmark        2 lookup smtp
># 32766:  from all lookup main
># 32767:  from all lookup 253
>
>In table "smtp" I defined a default route by the dev ppp0. The output of "ip
>route ls table smtp" is:
># default dev ppp0
>
>When I try to connect to a smtp port somewhere in the Internet, tcpdump show
>me that these packets go to the eth2 interface (the main table default
>route). I don't know where is my mistake but it seems that the marking in
>the OUTPUT chain occurs AFTER and not BEFORE routing. Is this a correct
>behaviour? How can I solve my problem? Please help!
>
>TIA
>- catalin -
>
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