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Re: Inability to IPVS DR with nft dnat since 9971a514ed26

To: Simon Kirby <sim@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Inability to IPVS DR with nft dnat since 9971a514ed26
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, lvs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:30:27 +0100
Simon Kirby <sim@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We have been successfully using nft dnat and IPVS in DR mode on 4.9, 4.14
> kernels, but since upgrading to 4.19, such rules now appear to miss the
> IPVS input hook and instead appear to hit localhost (and "tcpdump -ni lo"
> shows the packets) instead of being forwarded to a real server.
> 
> I bisected this to 9971a514ed2697e542f3984a6162eac54bb1da98 ("netfilter:
> nf_nat: add nat type hooks to nat core").
> 
> It should be pretty easy to see this with a minimal setup:
> 
> /etc/nftables.conf:
> 
> table ip nat {
>         chain prerouting {
>                 type nat hook prerouting priority 0;
> 
>               ip daddr $ext_ip dnat to $vip
>       }
>       chain postrouting {
>               type nat hook postrouting priority 100;
> 
>               # In theory this hook no longer needed since this commit,
>               # but we also need to do some unrelated snatting.
>       }
> }
> 
> /etc/sysctl.conf:
>       
> net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_local = 1
> net.ipv4.vs.conntrack = 1
> 
> IPVS DR setup:
> 
> ipvsadm -A -t $vip:80 -s wrr
> ipvsadm -a -t $vip:80 -r $real_ip:80 -g -w 100

I have a hard time figuring out how to expand $ext_ip, $vip and $real_ip,
and where to place those addresses on the nft machine.

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