Tailscale seems to conflict with my nftables setup?
Tailscale seems to conflict with my nftables setup?
I am setting up a homelab server with Tailscale, and I am also trying to learn new stuff along the way. I've never worked with xtables/nftables, so I wanted to try it out instead of ufw.
My goals for the setup were:
- Tailscale manages its own traffic (aka everything on tailscale0). Otherwise:
- all outgoing traffic is allowed
- forwarding is not allowed
- incoming is not allowed, unless it's port 22 from my local LAN (for quick at-home debugging)
- ICMP is allowed for pinging
I've scouted Arch Linux wiki and nftables wiki and have made this config:
flush ruleset
table inet my_chain {
set LANv4 {
type ipv4_addr
flags interval
elements = { 192.168.1.0/24 }
}
set LANv6 {
type ipv6_addr
flags interval
elements = { fe80::/64 }
}
chain my_lan_input {
tcp dport ssh accept comment "Accept SSH on port 22"
}
chain my_input {
type filter hook input priority filter; policy drop;
iif lo accept comment "Accept localhost traffic"
ct state invalid drop comment "Drop invalid connections"
ct state established,related accept comment "Accept traffic originated from us"
meta l4proto ipv6-icmp accept comment "Accept ICMPv6"
meta l4proto icmp accept comment "Accept ICMP"
ip6 saddr @LANv6 jump my_lan_input comment "Connections from private IPv6 address ranges"
ip saddr @LANv4 jump my_lan_input comment "Connections from private IPv4 address ranges"
}
chain my_forward {
type filter hook forward priority filter; policy drop;
}
chain my_output {
type filter hook output priority filter; policy accept;
}
}
I put this config in /etc/nftables.conf
, set TS_DEBUG_FIREWALL_MODE=nftables
, and restarted my machine. After booting, Tailscale added its own chains, as expected:
$ sudo nft list tables
table inet my_chain
table ip filter
table ip nat
table ip6 filter
table ip6 nat
But now, I can't connect to my machine over HTTP(S) from Tailscale; When I go to the node's address in the browser, I get a timeout. I've tried setting the priority of my chain to filter + 1
, but to no avail. How do I make this work?
(I realise this is more a networking question than a Tailscale one, but maybe someone had faced a similar situation)