netfilter: xtables: add cluster match

This patch adds the iptables cluster match. This match can be used
to deploy gateway and back-end load-sharing clusters. The cluster
can be composed of 32 nodes maximum (although I have only tested
this with two nodes, so I cannot tell what is the real scalability
limit of this solution in terms of cluster nodes).

Assuming that all the nodes see all packets (see below for an
example on how to do that if your switch does not allow this), the
cluster match decides if this node has to handle a packet given:

	(jhash(source IP) % total_nodes) & node_mask

For related connections, the master conntrack is used. The following
is an example of its use to deploy a gateway cluster composed of two
nodes (where this is the node 1):

iptables -I PREROUTING -t mangle -i eth1 -m cluster \
	--cluster-total-nodes 2 --cluster-local-node 1 \
	--cluster-proc-name eth1 -j MARK --set-mark 0xffff
iptables -A PREROUTING -t mangle -i eth1 \
	-m mark ! --mark 0xffff -j DROP
iptables -A PREROUTING -t mangle -i eth2 -m cluster \
	--cluster-total-nodes 2 --cluster-local-node 1 \
	--cluster-proc-name eth2 -j MARK --set-mark 0xffff
iptables -A PREROUTING -t mangle -i eth2 \
	-m mark ! --mark 0xffff -j DROP

And the following commands to make all nodes see the same packets:

ip maddr add 01:00:5e:00:01:01 dev eth1
ip maddr add 01:00:5e:00:01:02 dev eth2
arptables -I OUTPUT -o eth1 --h-length 6 \
	-j mangle --mangle-mac-s 01:00:5e:00:01:01
arptables -I INPUT -i eth1 --h-length 6 \
	--destination-mac 01:00:5e:00:01:01 \
	-j mangle --mangle-mac-d 00:zz:yy:xx:5a:27
arptables -I OUTPUT -o eth2 --h-length 6 \
	-j mangle --mangle-mac-s 01:00:5e:00:01:02
arptables -I INPUT -i eth2 --h-length 6 \
	--destination-mac 01:00:5e:00:01:02 \
	-j mangle --mangle-mac-d 00:zz:yy:xx:5a:27

In the case of TCP connections, pickup facility has to be disabled
to avoid marking TCP ACK packets coming in the reply direction as
valid.

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_tcp_loose

BTW, some final notes:

 * This match mangles the skbuff pkt_type in case that it detects
PACKET_MULTICAST for a non-multicast address. This may be done in
a PKTTYPE target for this sole purpose.
 * This match supersedes the CLUSTERIP target.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/netfilter/Kconfig b/net/netfilter/Kconfig
index cdbaaff..2562d05 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/Kconfig
+++ b/net/netfilter/Kconfig
@@ -527,6 +527,22 @@ config NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_TCPOPTSTRIP
 	  This option adds a "TCPOPTSTRIP" target, which allows you to strip
 	  TCP options from TCP packets.
 
+config NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CLUSTER
+	tristate '"cluster" match support'
+	depends on NF_CONNTRACK
+	depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED
+	---help---
+	  This option allows you to build work-load-sharing clusters of
+	  network servers/stateful firewalls without having a dedicated
+	  load-balancing router/server/switch. Basically, this match returns
+	  true when the packet must be handled by this cluster node. Thus,
+	  all nodes see all packets and this match decides which node handles
+	  what packets. The work-load sharing algorithm is based on source
+	  address hashing.
+
+	  If you say Y or M here, try `iptables -m cluster --help` for
+	  more information.
+
 config NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_COMMENT
 	tristate  '"comment" match support'
 	depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED