[lvs-users] annoying routing problem with a lvs cluster (solved) 2

Dean Scothern dean.scothern at eduserv.org.uk
Tue Mar 13 12:01:26 GMT 2012 

Hi,

Sigh bad formatting my end, corrected :

Machine that is a client and a server

Where 192.168.3.107 = backend ip running the service
192.168.2.107 = front end ip used for client requests
192.168.2.1 = front end ip on main gateway (1st default gateway)
192.168.3.149 = backend ip on the load balancer that is used as the 2nd default gateway (return traffic back from backend ip)

Example network config:

ip addr add 192.168.3.107/24 dev eth0; ip link set eth0 up 
ip addr add 192.168.2.107/24 dev eth1; ip link set eth1 up

ip rule flush
ip rule del pref     0 lookup local
ip rule add pref   500 lookup local

#readd defaults
ip rule add pref 30000 lookup main
ip rule add pref 30100 lookup default

ip rule add pref 10 iif eth0 lookup local
ip rule add pref 11 iif eth1 lookup local

ip rule add pref 100 to 192.168.3.107 lookup secondary 
ip rule add pref 101 from 192.168.3.107 lookup secondary

echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/accept_local
echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth1/accept_local

ip route add default via 192.168.2.1

ip route flush table secondary
ip route add default via 192.168.3.149 table secondary


-----Original Message-----
From: lvs-users-bounces at linuxvirtualserver.org [mailto:lvs-users-bounces at linuxvirtualserver.org] On Behalf Of Dean Scothern
Sent: 08 March 2012 12:45
To: LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list.; David Coulson
Subject: Re: [lvs-users] annoying routing problem with a lvs cluster

Hi,

It seems that the solution to my problem involves the use of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth<n>/accept_local
For test purposes I've installed a more recent kernel that offers this functionality and I've been able to test it with a simple Eth to eth external test.
So far I've been unsuccessful with the more complicated policy routing  scenario.
Has anyone used accept_local with lvs nat to make something like the scenario I outlined  earlier work?

Best Regards


-----Original Message-----
From: lvs-users-bounces at linuxvirtualserver.org [mailto:lvs-users-bounces at linuxvirtualserver.org] On Behalf Of Dean Scothern
Sent: 02 March 2012 10:12
To: David Coulson
Cc: LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list.
Subject: Re: [lvs-users] annoying routing problem with a lvs cluster

Thanks,

It's worth a try but I think it will fall foul of the host route in the local table, which will apply first.

Best Regards



From: David Coulson [mailto:david at davidcoulson.net]
Sent: 01 March 2012 21:36
To: Dean Scothern
Cc: LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list.
Subject: Re: [lvs-users] annoying routing problem with a lvs cluster

Had a thought on this - You could use iptables to mark your return packet, then run it through a separate routing table based on a 'i ip ru add fwmark x table y' option. Your separate routing table would just have a default gw pointing to the VIP from your LVS cluster.


Not sure if that would work well, but it's worth a shot.


On Mar 1, 2012, at 8:59 AM, Dean Scothern wrote:


Thank you for your quick reply.

Whilst snat would work I would prefer not to use it as it hides the source ip of the packets, making applications that use ip access lists more problem atic to configure, eg mailservers. Eventually I would expand the clients to include other networks (internet), and would like log analysis to work.
I would prefer not to use a proxy and pass magic headers with the remote ip them either.
The link in question also probably cannot easily apply to redhat/centos 6 as they are based on 2.6.32 kernel and the link mentions 2.6.35, 2.6.36.
Reading further it might be possible to apply the patch set and rebuild the associated kernel modules.

To be honest I hoping for some route configuration magicry, I feel so close and surely there must be a way.

Many Thanks


From: David Coulson [mailto:david at davidcoulson.net]<mailto:[mailto:david at davidcoulson.net]>
Sent: 01 March 2012 13:04
To: LinuxVirtualServer.org<http://LinuxVirtualServer.org> users mailing list.
Cc: Dean Scothern
Subject: Re: [lvs-users] annoying routing problem with a lvs cluster

You need to SNAT real server traffic going to your real servers.

Quick google found this:

http://blog.loadbalancer.org/enabling-snat-in-lvs-xt_ipvs-and-iptables/

I'm presuming it's in mainline by now, but I know it's not in RHEL/SuSE yet.

David

On 3/1/12 7:55 AM, Dean Scothern wrote:

Hi,



I've been experimenting with a slightly non standard lvs cluster arrangement.



I have a set of combined real servers/real clients (each machine has both services and clients) and two machines running lvs as a cluster.



All machines are connected directly to the same two networks: frontend and backend.



The real servers/real clients connect to a service ip on the lvs machines on the frontend network.

The lvs machines run in masq mode and connect to the real servers/real clients on the backend network.

I've configured policy routing on the real servers/real clients backend interfaces to return traffic via a second gateway on the lvs hosts.



This works very well except when a real server/real client connects to its own backend interface via the lvs cluster ip.

I guessing that the local host route means that instead of returning the traffic via the backend gateway on the lvs it tries to go directly locally.

Tcpdump appears to support this guess and if I turn on martian logging  I can see the  traffic.



Initially I thought that reverse path filtering was preventing operation but the problem remained when it was disabled.

Turning on routing had not beneficial effect either.



Ideally I would like to setup routing to override the local table when the policy routing rules are applied, but I'm not sure how.

So far attempts to to do this have failed



Has anyone managed to  do this?



Its more of a routing question so apologies for being slightly off topic.



Best Regards



Dean Scothern

Dr Dean Scothern

Infrastructure

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