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PostPosted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 9:13 pm    Post subject: iptables -J NFLOG and tcpdump - much gnashing of teeth! Reply with quote

Out of curiosity I've been trying to log particular traffic on my LAN, so I've setup some iptables that include:

Code:

...
iptables -A FORWARD -m mac --mac-source XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX -j NFLOG --nflog-group 2
iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -d 192.168.XXX.XXX -j NFLOG --nflog-group 2
iptables -A FORWARD -p udp -d 192.168.XXX.XXX -j NFLOG --nflog-group 2
...
iptables -A INPUT -p all -i wlan0 -j NFLOG --nflog-group 1


They work, when I fire up wireshark & point it at the NFLOG interface I can see all the interesting traffic logged.
But when I run:

Code:

tcpdump -i nflog:1 -w /home/nflog-1-${DUMP_LOG_DATE}.log
tcpdump -i nflog:2 -w /home/nflog-2-${DUMP_LOG_DATE}.log


I get:

Code:
tcpdump: WARNING: SIOCGIFADDR: nflog:1: No such device
tcpdump: /home/nflog-0-20130912-230157.log: No such file or directory
tcpdump: WARNING: SIOCGIFADDR: nflog:2: No such device
tcpdump: /home/nflog-1-20130912-230157.log: No such file or directory



What gives? I notice that wireshark runs dumpcap like this:

Code:
dumpcap -n -i nflog -y NFLOG -U zone


So I tried a similar thing with tcpdump:

Code:

# tcpdump -i nflog -w /home/blah.log
tcpdump: Can't listen on group group index: Operation not permitted


tcpdump relies on libpcap (built with netlink support) and iptables itself seems to be built correctly:
Code:

# for M in iptables libpcap netfilter tcpdump; do eix -I $M; done
[I] net-firewall/iptables
     Available versions:  1.4.6 1.4.10 ~1.4.10-r1 1.4.11.1-r2 ~1.4.12 1.4.12.1 ~1.4.12.1-r1 1.4.13 ~1.4.13-r2 ~1.4.14-r1 ~1.4.15-r1 ~1.4.16.2 1.4.16.3 ~1.4.17 {ipv6 netlink static-libs}
     Installed versions:  1.4.16.3(22:19:59 09/12/13)(ipv6 netlink -static-libs)
     Homepage:            http://www.iptables.org/
     Description:         Linux kernel (2.4+) firewall, NAT and packet mangling tools

[I] net-libs/libpcap
     Available versions:  1.1.1-r1 1.3.0-r1 {bluetooth canusb ipv6 netlink static-libs}
     Installed versions:  1.3.0-r1(22:17:11 09/12/13)(ipv6 netlink -bluetooth -canusb -static-libs)
     Homepage:            http://www.tcpdump.org/
     Description:         A system-independent library for user-level network packet capture

[I] net-libs/libnetfilter_conntrack
     Available versions:  1.0.0 ~1.0.1 1.0.2 {static-libs}
     Installed versions:  1.0.2(00:33:22 02/23/13)(-static-libs)
     Homepage:            http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnetfilter_conntrack/
     Description:         programming interface (API) to the in-kernel connection tracking state table

[I] net-analyzer/tcpdump
     Available versions:  3.9.8 3.9.8-r1 ~4.1.1 ~4.2.0 ~4.2.1 4.3.0 {(+)chroot ipv6 (-)samba smi ssl suid test}
     Installed versions:  4.3.0(22:19:22 09/12/13)(chroot ipv6 ssl -samba -smi -suid -test)
     Homepage:            http://www.tcpdump.org/
     Description:         A Tool for network monitoring and data acquisition


Heeeeelp! :oops:
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 3:05 pm    Post subject: Re: iptables -J NFLOG and tcpdump - much gnashing of teeth! Reply with quote

What gives? I notice that wireshark runs dumpcap like this:

Code:
dumpcap -n -i nflog -y NFLOG -U zone


Perhaps:
Code:
dumpcap -i nflog:1 -w /home/nflog-1.pcap
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