Flow accounting for ppp interfaces not work
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	Viacheslav
	Dec 1 2019, 4:25 PM

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Test scheme (ref. from https://forum.vyos.io/t/flow-accounting-not-working-on-rolling-release/4438)
eth0 - Uplink address, assigned via pppoe.
eth1 - pppoe-server for internal clients

We don't see flow counters for ppp interfaces.
Technology nat is not used.

sever@prim# show interfaces 
 ethernet eth0 {
     description Uplink-pppoe-client
     duplex auto
     pppoe 0 {
         default-route auto
         mtu 1492
         name-server auto
         password primpass
         user-id primlogin
     }
     smp-affinity auto
     speed auto
 }
 ethernet eth1 {
     description PPPoE-server
     duplex auto
     smp-affinity auto
     speed auto
 }

Configuration pppoe-server

service {
    pppoe-server {
        access-concentrator ACNPRIM
        authentication {
            local-users {
                username secondlogin {
                    password secondpass
                }
            }
            mode local
        }
        client-ip-pool {
            start xxx.xxx.242.245
            stop xxx.xxx.242.245
        }
        dns-servers {
            server-1 1.1.1.1
            server-2 8.8.8.8
        }
        interface eth1
        local-ip xxx.xxx.242.244
    }

Flow accounting

sever@prim# show system flow-accounting 
 interface eth0
 interface eth1
 interface pppoe0
 netflow {
     version 9
 }
 syslog-facility daemon

All counters for flows is zero.

sever@prim:~$ show flow-accounting 
flow-accounting for [eth0]
Src Addr        Dst Addr        Sport Dport Proto    Packets      Bytes   Flows

Total entries: 0
Total flows  : 0
Total pkts   : 0
Total bytes  : 0

flow-accounting for [eth1]
Src Addr        Dst Addr        Sport Dport Proto    Packets      Bytes   Flows

Total entries: 0
Total flows  : 0
Total pkts   : 0
Total bytes  : 0

flow-accounting for [pppoe0]
Src Addr        Dst Addr        Sport Dport Proto    Packets      Bytes   Flows

Total entries: 0
Total flows  : 0
Total pkts   : 0
Total bytes  : 0

The ppp1 interface was dynamically created for the internal client

sever@prim:~$ show pppoe-server sessions 
 ifname |  username   |    calling-sid    |       ip       | type  | comp | state  |  uptime  
--------+-------------+-------------------+----------------+-------+------+--------+----------
 ppp1   | secondlogin | 55:55:00:99:55:55 | xxx.xxx.242.245 | pppoe |      | active | 00:35:43

Show routes:

sever@prim:~$ show ip route 
Codes: K - kernel route, C - connected, S - static, R - RIP,
       O - OSPF, I - IS-IS, B - BGP, E - EIGRP, N - NHRP,
       T - Table, v - VNC, V - VNC-Direct, A - Babel, D - SHARP,
       F - PBR, f - OpenFabric,
       > - selected route, * - FIB route

K>* 0.0.0.0/0 [0/0] is directly connected, pppoe0, 00:42:50
C>* xxx.xx.242.17/32 is directly connected, pppoe0, 00:42:50
C>* xxx.xx.242.245/32 is directly connected, ppp1, 00:42:06

Details

Version: VyOS 1.2.3
Is it a breaking change?: Unspecified (possibly destroys the router)
Issue type: Bug (incorrect behavior)

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Mentioned In: T1166: Flow-accounting not working with PPPoE interfaces

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Viacheslav created this task.Dec 1 2019, 4:25 PM

pasik subscribed.Dec 2 2019, 9:24 AM

Viacheslav mentioned this in T1166: Flow-accounting not working with PPPoE interfaces.Dec 10 2019, 10:15 AM

That seems to be a uacct problem (test inVyOS 1.3-rolling-201912201452 with new flow-accounting python/xml conf).

I used this lab:

client 2 pings to client 1

We need to put ppp0 (or 1, 2, ...n) in set system flow-accountin interface pppX
This is important because on server we haven't a common pppoe interface, each client has its own link to pppX pseudo-interface on server.
That's not scalable, we will need to add a interface in flow-accounting:
set system flow-accounting interface pppX
for each client connection to our pppoe server.

If we see iptables on server you can see that there are not traffic captured in rule 1 (NFLOG eth0) but there are packets that traverses it in rule 2 (ppp0):

root@server:~# iptables -t raw -L VYATTA_CT_PREROUTING_HOOK --line-numbers -v  
Chain VYATTA_CT_PREROUTING_HOOK (1 references)
num   pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination         
1        0     0 NFLOG      all  --  eth0   any     anywhere             anywhere             /* FLOW_ACCOUNTING_RULE */ nflog-group 2 nflog-range 128 nflog-threshold 100
2      174 14616 NFLOG      all  --  ppp0   any     anywhere             anywhere             /* FLOW_ACCOUNTING_RULE */ nflog-group 2 nflog-range 128 nflog-threshold 100

Other way to test is doing some pings from one client and capture traffic (tcpdump) in nflog group 2:

root@server:~# service uacctd stop
root@server:~# tcpdump -s 0 -n -i nflog:2
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on nflog:2, link-type NFLOG (Linux netfilter log messages), capture size 262144 bytes
18:19:21.052092 IP 192.168.200.2 > 192.168.200.3: ICMP echo request, id 1752, seq 17379, length 64
18:19:21.054775 IP 192.168.200.2 > 192.168.200.3: ICMP echo request, id 1752, seq 17380, length 64
18:19:23.068508 IP 192.168.200.2 > 192.168.200.3: ICMP echo request, id 1752, seq 17381, length 64
18:19:23.071122 IP 192.168.200.2 > 192.168.200.3: ICMP echo request, id 1752, seq 17382, length 64

This is working as expected, packets arrives to nflog group 2 (as we have seen in iptables rules before) but not are processed by uacctd.

It seems to be a uacct problem (perhaps agregation variables???)

tested with minimum aggregate options (no MAC, VLAN, interface, ...):

/etc/pmacct/uacctd.conf:

aggregate:src_host,dst_host,src_port,dst_port

And no flow entries:

root@server:~# service uacctd restart
root@server:~# /usr/bin/pmacct -s  -T flows -p /tmp/uacctd.pipe 
SRC_IP                                         DST_IP                                         SRC_PORT  DST_PORT  PACKETS               BYTES

For a total of: 0 entries

Same behaviour with compiled uacctd version from pmacct git 1.7.5-git (20191224-00):
packets are arriving correctly to nflog group (tcpdump shows them) but they aren't processed by uacct

root@server:~# uacctd -V
Linux NetFilter NFLOG Accounting Daemon, uacctd 1.7.5-git (20191224-00)

Arguments:
 [....]

root@server:~# iptables -t raw -L VYATTA_CT_PREROUTING_HOOK 
Chain VYATTA_CT_PREROUTING_HOOK (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination         
NFLOG      all  --  anywhere             anywhere             /* FLOW_ACCOUNTING_RULE */ nflog-group 2 nflog-range 128 nflog-threshold 100
NFLOG      all  --  anywhere             anywhere             /* FLOW_ACCOUNTING_RULE */ nflog-group 2 nflog-range 128 nflog-threshold 100
NFLOG      all  --  anywhere             anywhere             /* FLOW_ACCOUNTING_RULE */ nflog-group 2 nflog-range 128 nflog-threshold 100
RETURN     all  --  anywhere             anywhere

root@server:~# iptables -t raw -S VYATTA_CT_PREROUTING_HOOK
-N VYATTA_CT_PREROUTING_HOOK
-A VYATTA_CT_PREROUTING_HOOK -i ppp1 -m comment --comment FLOW_ACCOUNTING_RULE -j NFLOG --nflog-group 2 --nflog-range 128 --nflog-threshold 100
-A VYATTA_CT_PREROUTING_HOOK -i eth0 -m comment --comment FLOW_ACCOUNTING_RULE -j NFLOG --nflog-group 2 --nflog-range 128 --nflog-threshold 100
-A VYATTA_CT_PREROUTING_HOOK -i ppp0 -m comment --comment FLOW_ACCOUNTING_RULE -j NFLOG --nflog-group 2 --nflog-range 128 --nflog-threshold 100
-A VYATTA_CT_PREROUTING_HOOK -j RETURN

Conf

set service pppoe-server authentication local-users username test password 'test'
set service pppoe-server authentication mode 'local'
set service pppoe-server client-ip-pool start '192.168.200.2'
set service pppoe-server client-ip-pool stop '192.168.200.100'
set service pppoe-server dns-servers server-1 '192.168.123.1'
set service pppoe-server interface eth0
set service pppoe-server local-ip '192.168.200.1'

set system flow-accounting interface 'ppp0'
set system flow-accounting interface 'eth0'
set system flow-accounting interface 'ppp1'
set system flow-accounting netflow server 192.168.100.2 port '2055'
set system flow-accounting netflow source-ip '192.168.123.3'
set system flow-accounting netflow version '9'

No flows detected

root@server:~# /usr/bin/pmacct -s  -T flows -p /tmp/uacctd.pipe 
IN_IFACE    SRC_MAC            DST_MAC            VLAN   SRC_IP                                         DST_IP                                         SRC_PORT  DST_PORT  PROTOCOL    TOS    PACKETS               FLOWS                 BYTES

For a total of: 0 entries
root@server:~# /usr/bin/pmacct -s  -T flows -p /tmp/uacctd.pipe 
IN_IFACE    SRC_MAC            DST_MAC            VLAN   SRC_IP                                         DST_IP                                         SRC_PORT  DST_PORT  PROTOCOL    TOS    PACKETS               FLOWS                 BYTES

For a total of: 0 entries

but they are arriving to nflog group 2 icmp and a ssh session from client1 to client2

service uacctd stop
tcpdump -s 0 -n -i nflog:2

tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on nflog:2, link-type NFLOG (Linux netfilter log messages), capture size 262144 bytes
19:22:01.173588 IP 192.168.200.2 > 192.168.200.3: ICMP echo request, id 2001, seq 870, length 64
19:22:01.175570 IP 192.168.200.3 > 192.168.200.2: ICMP echo reply, id 2001, seq 870, length 64
19:22:01.952071 IP 192.168.200.3.55946 > 192.168.200.2.22: Flags [P.], seq 3481395271:3481395355, ack 2147864937, win 1002, options [nop,nop,TS val 1330901319 ecr 2229139660], length 84
[...]

19:22:02.988109 IP 192.168.200.3.55946 > 192.168.200.2.22: Flags [.], ack 2225, win 1002, options [nop,nop,TS val 1330901528 ecr 2229152143], length 0
19:22:04.177627 IP 192.168.200.2 > 192.168.200.3: ICMP echo request, id 2001, seq 872, length 64
19:22:04.179864 IP 192.168.200.3 > 192.168.200.2: ICMP echo reply, id 2001, seq 872, length 64
19:22:04.181750 IP 192.168.200.3.55946 > 192.168.200.2.22: Flags [P.], seq 640:676, ack 2225, win 1002, options [nop,nop,TS val 1330903534 ecr 2229152143], length 36
[...]

syncer triaged this task as Normal priority.Jan 1 2020, 1:55 PM

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@Dmitry and i talked that it will be wise to move ipt-netflow for better performance

blueish subscribed.Feb 8 2020, 8:41 AM

In T1838#50692, @syncer wrote:

@Dmitry and i talked that it will be wise to move ipt-netflow for better performance

it could be interesting.
i'm not sure that all the options that can manage pmacct are available on ipt-netflow.
So I think that the best way is starting to replicate all netflow skeleton (flow-accounting-ng) in other tree:

set system flow-accounting-ng netflow ....
or even better:
set service flow-accounting(-ng)

and have both systems working at the same time

I can prepare the scripts for a basic implementation.

blueish unsubscribed.Feb 19 2020, 6:50 PM

Hi All, is there any movement on a fix for this? It would be great to get netflow data out of my PPPoE interfaces - happy to run any tests for you

Codec subscribed.Apr 5 2020, 1:52 PM

mpueschel subscribed.Sep 8 2020, 7:45 AM

Hi - is there any update on a fix for this bug?

Well you could try to use ppp* as globbing pattern - maybe this works?

Hi @c-po - do you mean in the context of 'set system flow-accounting interface ppp*'? - unfortunately I have tried this and I'm still not getting anything out.

dmbaturin added a project: test.Jul 29 2021, 12:34 PM

erkin renamed this task from Flow accounting for ppp interfaces not work. to Flow accounting for ppp interfaces not work.Aug 31 2021, 6:12 PM

erkin set Issue type to Bug (incorrect behavior).

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As we moved from pmacct to ipt-netflow it needs to be re-checked

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