Delay and retransmission of SYNs using netfilter conntrack with duplicate tuples

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Issue

  • We use the netfilter TPROXY target as part of a transparent proxy application facilitating connections from multiple clients to multiple servers.

When a client initiates a connection, we see the connection establish as expected. When a client initiates a second connection from a different source port as the first, we see the connection establish as expected. When a client initiates a second connection from the same source port as the first, we see a three second delay in connection establishment.

At the time of the delayed connection, we also see two tuples with the same source port in the output of ss -n -t.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.3
  • netfilter connection tracking with TPROXY target

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