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Re: arp - Problem

To: Patrick Kormann <pkormann@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: arp - Problem
Cc: "'lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Julian Anastasov <uli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 11:02:27 +0200 (EET)

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Patrick Kormann wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I hope this is not off-topic.
> We have a 'cluster' of 4 proxy servers. I'm now trying to combine them using
> ipvs with direct routing. As the 'real servers' are using Kernel 2.2.13, I
> have the problem described on the linuxvirtualserver homepage: The proxies
> answers arp requests to the lo:0 IP, instead of letting the ipvs server
> answer them.
> I applied the arpfix-2213-1.diff patch to the kernels of the proxies and set
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/lo/arp_invisible (or something very close to that :)
> ) to 1,  but still the proxies seem to answer the arp request. If I don't
> configure the ipvs server at all and do a ping to the 'virtual' IP, I have
> the MAC Adress of one of the proxies in my arp table, not the one of the
> ipvs server. the oterh patch from the virtualserver.org homepage didn't work
> at all, it broke the net-connetion of the proxies. Maybe they stopped ARPing
> at all.

        May be this is not in the docs but it is required to enable the
feature using:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_invisible

Now you can specify which interface to hide:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/lo/arp_invisible

Regards,

Julian Anastasov


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