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Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] openvswitch: support asymmetric conntrack
To:     Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
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        "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>, dev@openvswitch.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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From:   Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
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Le 08/11/2019 ? 22:07, Aaron Conole a ?crit?:
> The openvswitch module shares a common conntrack and NAT infrastructure
> exposed via netfilter.  It's possible that a packet needs both SNAT and
> DNAT manipulation, due to e.g. tuple collision.  Netfilter can support
> this because it runs through the NAT table twice - once on ingress and
> again after egress.  The openvswitch module doesn't have such capability.
> 
> Like netfilter hook infrastructure, we should run through NAT twice to
> keep the symmetry.
> 
> Fixes: 05752523e565 ("openvswitch: Interface with NAT.")
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
In this case, ovs_ct_find_existing() won't be able to find the conntrack, right?
Inverting the tuple to find the conntrack doesn't work anymore with double NAT.
Am I wrong?


Regards,
Nicolas