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Traffic mirroring with tc over GRE Tunnel only gets ingress Traffic


i am trying to mirror "all" network traffic from one interface with the help of tc trough an GRE-Tunnel tun0. The GRE-Tunnel is working fine, i can ping and send packets trough it without any problems. I added the tc-qdisc and tc-filter with the following commands:

tc qdisc add dev ens5 ingress

tc filter add dev ens5 parent ffff: \
protocol all \
u32 match u8 0 0 \
action mirred egress mirror dev tun0

and

tc qdisc add dev ens5 handle 1: root prio

tc filter add dev ens5 parent 1: \
protocol all \
u32 match u8 0 0 \
action mirred egress mirror dev tun0

like in this Tutorial

Problem

The Problem is that only ingress traffic is coming through the GRE-Tunnel. When i ping another computer over interface ens5 than i only get the icmp echo replies through the tun0 interface. What am i doing wrong?

Debug

ubuntu@switch:~$ tcpdump -i tun0 icmp
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on tun0, link-type LINUX_SLL (Linux cooked), capture size 262144 bytes
10:23:28.952197 IP 192.168.20.12 > 192.168.20.15: ICMP echo reply, id 3453, seq 1, length 64
10:23:29.954454 IP 192.168.20.12 > 192.168.20.15: ICMP echo reply, id 3453, seq 2, length 64
10:23:30.952864 IP 192.168.20.12 > 192.168.20.15: ICMP echo reply, id 3453, seq 3, length 64
10:23:31.953207 IP 192.168.20.12 > 192.168.20.15: ICMP echo reply, id 3453, seq 4, length 64
10:23:32.955350 IP 192.168.20.12 > 192.168.20.15: ICMP echo reply, id 3453, seq 5, length 64
10:23:33.957000 IP 192.168.20.12 > 192.168.20.15: ICMP echo reply, id 3453, seq 6, length 64
10:23:34.956313 IP 192.168.20.12 > 192.168.20.15: ICMP echo reply, id 3453, seq 7, length 64

Solution

  • Solved the Problem by myself.

    tc mirrors the egress traffic with the Ethernet-Header and the ingress traffic without Ethernet-Header The GRE-Tunnel expects only IP-Packets, so there was an header-mismatch. If i am using VXLAN instead of GRE it works fine.