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Bug 1658734 - xtables-monitor has missing documentation references
Summary: xtables-monitor has missing documentation references
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: iptables
Version: 8.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.1
Assignee: Phil Sutter
QA Contact: Jiri Peska
Marc Muehlfeld
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 1612985 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 1682316
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-12-12 18:35 UTC by Tomas Dolezal
Modified: 2020-11-14 12:55 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: iptables-1.8.2-10.el8
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
.The `TRACE` target in the `iptables-extensions(8)` man page has been updated Previously, the description of the `TRACE` target in the `iptables-extensions(8)` man page referred only to the `compat` variant, but Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 uses the `nf_tables` variant. As a consequence, the man page did not reference the `xtables-monitor` command-line utility to display `TRACE` events. The man page has been updated and, as a result, now mentions `xtables-monitor`.
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Last Closed: 2019-11-05 22:17:43 UTC
Type: Bug
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Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2019:3573 0 None None None 2019-11-05 22:17:52 UTC

Description Tomas Dolezal 2018-12-12 18:35:08 UTC 
Description of problem:
description of TRACE target in iptables-extensions(8) refers just to unused 'compat' variant. The 'nf_tables' variant uses nft backend which produces TRACE messages that need to be caught in different way. In this case, 'xtables-monitor' cli tool is at hand to catch messages otherwise available through 'nft monitor' feature.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
iptables-1.8.1-2.el8.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
seek through iptables-extensions(8) manpage

Actual results:
   TRACE
       This target marks packets so that the kernel will log every rule which match the packets as  those  traverse
       the tables, chains, rules.

       A  logging backend, such as ip(6)t_LOG or nfnetlink_log, must be loaded for this to be visible.  The packets
       are logged with the string prefix: "TRACE: tablename:chainname:type:rulenum " where type can be  "rule"  for
       plain rule, "return" for implicit rule at the end of a user defined chain and "policy" for the policy of the
       built in chains.
       It can only be used in the raw table.

Expected results:
added reference to 'xtables-monitor' for case that 'nf_tables' variant of iptables was used to add the rule.
A release note may also be added.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Tomas Dolezal 2018-12-12 18:37:08 UTC 
*** Bug 1612985 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Phil Sutter 2018-12-18 11:19:20 UTC 
Documentation enhancement sent upstream: https://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=154513180417213&w=2
Comment 4 Phil Sutter 2019-01-29 14:54:32 UTC 
Since this is merely a documentation issue, I'm moving this to 8.1.
Comment 5 Phil Sutter 2019-02-27 09:43:45 UTC 
Upstream commit to backport:

commit 9ac39888722ee9c7e97d9b8cb9eb4f33b582130a
Author: Phil Sutter <phil>
Date:   Tue Dec 18 12:16:30 2018 +0100

    extensions: TRACE: Point at xtables-monitor in documentation
    
    With iptables-nft, logging of trace events is different from legacy.
    Explain why and hint at how to receive events in this case.
    
    Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil>
    Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw>
Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 22:17:43 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2019:3573
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