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GRE Help Please

raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran
edited March 2013 in Help

I have a small dedi in the same Vegas DC as @Francisco (thanks @qps). My plan is to run cPanel/WHM on part of it, and use buyvm's ddos protection via GRE.

So I got OvZ running fine, created a container, gave it an IP, all is well. IP assigned to the VM (venet0:0) is (making this up) 141.211.164.7

I setup GRE per buyvm's doc: http://wiki.buyvm.net/doku.php/gre_tunnel

So there's a gre1 on the box with an IP of 192.168.168.2 and it can talk to 192.168.168.1, which is on a BuyVM VPS.

Now here's my Q: when I run the cPanel installer it's going to use the default route to connect to the Internet for licensing purposes, and hence discover 141.211.164.7. If I run

wget http://www.cpanel.net/showip.cgi -q -O -

Then I get 141.211.164.7. But I want it to be 209.141.38.x, which is my BuyVM filtered IP.

What I want is for my gre to be the default gateway...in other words, all traffic flows through that.

I tried this:

ip route del default
ip route add default dev gre1

But then networking stopped working altogether and I was sad.

I see the BuyVM doc discusses NATting but I'm not sure that would work...the OvZ container has a public IP and by default that's what it's going to use.

Comments

  • @raindog308 said: ip route del default

    ip route add default dev gre1

    You need to add a route to the /24 your gre tunnel connects to.

  • SOmeone perhaps make a nice little script or tutorial?

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    @Rallias said: You need to add a route to the /24 your gre tunnel connects to.

    Didn't make a difference, though maybe I'm not understanding.

    Here is what I'm doing...on the dedi:

    iptunnel add gre1 mode gre local MY-LOCAL-IP remote BUYVM-IP ttl 255
    ip addr add 192.168.168.2/30 dev gre1
    ip link set gre1 up
    ip rule add from 192.168.168.0/30 table BUYVM
    ip route add default via 192.168.168.1 table BUYVM
    

    ("100 BUYVM" is already in /etc/iproute2/rt_tables)

    At that point, I can ping 192.168.168.1 just fine. Routing table:

    # ip route list
    192.168.168.0/30 dev gre1  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.168.2 
    169.254.0.0/16 dev venet0  scope link  metric 1003 
    default dev venet0  scope link 
    

    Now if I add 192.168.168.1 (the BuyVM IP) as a default route:

    # ip route del default
    # ip route add default via 192.168.168.1
    # ip route list
    192.168.168.0/30 dev gre1  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.168.2 
    169.254.0.0/16 dev venet0  scope link  metric 1003 
    default via 192.168.168.1 dev gre1 
    

    Networking stops working - in fact, can't ping 192.168.168.1 even.

    Tried 192.168.168.2 as well but no difference.

    Restarting the container and skipping the last two commands at the top ("ip rule add" and "ip route add") makes no difference. If I restore the original default device ("ip route del default && ip route add default dev venet0") then networking is fine though of course that's not GRE'd.

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    Just set up a GRE tunnel and confirm it is working, by pinging both sides, because as far as I understand even the GRE is not working properly?

  • I recommend not using an openvz VPS for this. Get a KVM instead. Actually i am not sure if this kind of routing can work on OpenVZ at all.

  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran

    Just did it last night by the book and didn't have any trouble. I'd probably just start over.

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    So if I do this:

    iptunnel add gre1 mode gre local MY-LOCAL-IP remote BUYVM-IP ttl 255
    ip addr add 192.168.168.2/30 dev gre1
    ip link set gre1 up
    ip rule add from 192.168.168.0/30 table BUYVM
    ip route add default via 192.168.168.1 table BUYVM
    

    Then the GRE tunnel is working fine. I can ping 192.168.168.1 from .2, and .2 from .1

    The problem is this:

    # wget http://www.cpanel.net/showip.cgi -q -O -
    

    This shows my dedi IP. I need it to show my BUYVM-filtered IP. In other words, I want all traffic to go through GRE.

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    @rds100 said: I recommend not using an openvz VPS for this. Get a KVM instead. Actually i am not sure if this kind of routing can work on OpenVZ at all.

    On which side do you mean?

  • @raindog308 said: On which side do you mean?

    On BuyVM's side. Get a KVM VPS with several filtered IPs and use it to gre the filtered IPs to your own dedi.

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    @rds100 said: On BuyVM's side. Get a KVM VPS with several filtered IPs and use it to gre the filtered IPs to your own dedi.

    But what setup would be different? Wouldn't I be using the same commands?

    To be clear, this works fine when run on the OvZ on my dedicated server:

    wget http://www.cpanel.net/showip.cgi --bind-address 192.168.168.2 -q -O -
    

    That shows my BuyVM filtered IP.

    But without the --bind-address, I get my dedicated server's OvZ VPS's address:

    wget http://www.cpanel.net/showip.cgi -q -O -
    

    This shows my dedicated server's OvZ VPS IP address.

    Seems like all I need to do is change the default route inside my dedicated server's OvZ VPS - but I can't seem to figure out how to do that.

  • Find me on skype, same nick name, i will try to help you.

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran
    edited March 2013

    @Jack said: You need to route a /29 instead of /30.

    Hmmm that sounds promising. But alas...

    Here is what I did on BuyVM side:

    iptunnel add gre1 mode gre local BUYVM-IP remote OVZ-IP ttl 255
    ip addr add 192.168.168.1/29 dev gre1
    ip link set gre1 up
    

    And then on the OvZ:

    iptunnel add gre1 mode gre local OVZ-IP remote BUYVM-IP ttl 255
    ip addr add 192.168.168.3/29 dev gre1
    ip link set gre1 up
    

    At that point, I could ping 192.168.168.1 and ping other internet hosts.

    But then when I changed default route...it stopped working:

    # ip route del default
    # ip route add default via 192.168.168.3
    

    At that point I couldn't ping internet hosts, couldn't ping 192.168.168.1, etc.

    Also tried "ip route add default via 192.168.168.1" instead with no change.

    BTW, I don't have any GRE configuration on the host node. There is a gre0 device from the ip_gre modprobe but that's it.

  • qpsqps Member, Host Rep
    edited March 2013

    OpenVZ containers don't have normal networking like a KVM or Xen VPS might.

    I believe you need to go like this:

    OVZ Container -> Host Node -> BuyVM

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    @Jack said: I suggest routing the IP to the hostnode and not the VM.

    Not quite sure I follow.

    So let's say I setup as this:

    Host Node:

    eth0 is an unrelated IP I don't want to mess with
    eth0:0 is 141.211.164.7 - that's an available public IP
    gre1 is 192.168.168.3

    BuyVM:

    gre1 is 192.168.168.1

    I set that up and I can talk back and forth on 192.168.168.{1,3}

    Now what IP do I assign to the OvZ VPS? I assigned 192.168.168.2/255.255.255.248

    From the VM I can ping 192.168.168.1 and 192.168.168.3, but not the internet, so something is still not correct as far as routing.

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    @Jack said: On your BuyVM VPS please execute the following commands:

    Yes, that's the guide I linked in my original post.

    @Jack said: NAT is used to pass data over our GRE and out the other end. While it would be possible to use a KVM based VPS with a purchased /29 allocation, this guide doesn't cover that.

    So I did this:

    @Jack said: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.168.0/29 -j SNAT --to-source YOUR_FILTERED_IP

    But not:

    @Jack said: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d YOUR_FILTERED_IP --dport 25565 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.168.3:25565

    iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -d 192.168.168.3 --dport 25565 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

    I was hoping to avoid having to create a bunch of rules for every port...and I'm not 100% sure this would work as cPanel refuses to run on non-public IPs. I'm pretty sure it would be grossly confused when it came to managing DNS.

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    @Jack said: You'll have to add a replace command for the DNS Zones to run on a cron every minute.

    Youch. Maybe this is not the best idea :-)

  • From what I understand you want all traffic to go through the tunnel, correct?

    In this case, the key sentence in BuyVM's guide is: "While it would be possible to use a KVM based VPS with a purchased /29 allocation, this guide doesn't cover that."

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    That key sentence doesn't indicate that anything would be particularly different in the way it works, however. Would it be?

    Moreover, it appears this will not work with cPanel/WHM regardless without a "rewrite the DNS zones every minute through cron" type of hack.

  • I guess if you get a /29 you can use the public IPs for the GRE tunnel, instead of private addresses and set it as main IP in cPanel?

    btw can you try:

    ip route del default
    ip route add default via 192.168.168.1 dev gre1
    ip route add [protected_ip] via [public_ip] dev venet0
    ip route flush cache
    
  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    If you get a KVM I can static route your filtered IP, then you can bind it properly on the other end.

    If you want to update DNS all the time then the nat option works.

  • What is cPanel binding to? It should be binding to the internal IP of the host node (192.168.168.x)

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    Right.

    And cpanel would update all the DNS to the 192.x.x.x IP automatically. cPanel doesn't support any sort of NAT setup to allow for users to provide an 'external' IP automatically which is silly since it stops users from using large scale load balancers.

    I can static route a single IP but you'd need to have a KVM to do it.

    Francisco

  • JanevskiJanevski Member
    edited March 2013

    @raindog308
    Let's assume You have set up all needed routes for local interfaces.
    Let's assume You have set up the default gateway route add default gw x.y.z.k
    Check the configuration ip route show
    If everything is okay then connect the GRE connection and after successful connection add:
    route add 0.0.0.0/1 gw [greserverip]
    route add 128.0.0.0/1 gw [greserverip]

    It should work, it worked for me, and i found it in the openvpn client configuration too, it's either that or emptying the default gateway route, and adding only one route for the server and defining the rest statically after maintaining GRE connection which is not that efficient way.
    I had written a script, but it wasn't that recent if i find it i'll send it.

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