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Re: [lvs-users] Connection sync breaks fwmark-based localnode setup

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Subject: Re: [lvs-users] Connection sync breaks fwmark-based localnode setup
From: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:23:29 +1100
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:54:31PM +0200, Seventh Sven wrote:
> On 2010-03-29 06:18, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:31:20PM +0200, svensven wrote:
> >> 1. Should the ip_vs_conn_in_get() function also take fwmark into
> >>    consideration when matching incoming packets to its list of
> >>    established ipvs connections?
> >
> > I suspect not, as the connection table doesn't include fwmark
> > information. And I think that there ought to be a simper resolution
> > to your problem than refactoring connection table entries.
> 
> That is fair.
> 
> >> 2. Is this the right way of setting up a two-node LVS setup with
> >>    localnodes and connection synchronization on a modern kernel?
> >>    (Assuming the conn sync would not break)
> >
> > I think that you could get around this problem by only activating
> > the LVS rules on the master-node. Or is that already the case?
> 
> Hm, that is not the case. The LVS rules are active on both nodes all
> the time. Do you mean it would make sense to add ipvsadm -A|E|D rules
> to the notify_{master,backup} scripts, so the config would be altered
> upon state change? Instead of keeping it statically in keepalived.conf
> that is.

Yes, that was what I was suggesting.

> Before I try this, see my comment for the next point too.
> 
> >> 28 [61.019] IPVS: lookup/in TCP 10.0.0.3:54590->10.0.0.10:9999 hit
> >> 29 [61.019] IPVS: Enter: ip_vs_dr_xmit, net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c
> >
> > I think that this is critical to the problem. That is
> > ip_vs_dr_xmit() is being called which causes a loop. I suspect that
> > ip_vs_null_xmit() should be called and if so the loop wouldn't
> > occur.
> >
> > Could you post the output of "ipvsadm -Ln" ?
> 
> Aha. I see that for ip_vs_null_xmit() to be called, the destination
> must be be flagged with IP_VS_CONN_F_LOCALNODE, which is set if
> inet_addr_type() returns RTN_LOCAL. In my case, it obviously doesn't.
> 
> Output of "ipvsadm -Ln" (LVS A / realserver A has its lighttpd
> stopped, so it's not in the list):
> 
> LVS A (master, own IP address 10.0.0.5):
> FWM  10 rr
>   -> 10.0.0.6:9999  Route  1  0  0
> 
> LVS B (backup, own IP address 10.0.0.6):
> FWM  10 rr
>   -> 10.0.0.6:9999  Local  1  0  0
> 
> Note that the IP is considered local, which is fine (it's the node's
> own eth0 IP address). Now, for some reason it does not consider the
> virtual IP 10.0.0.10 local. I thought this could be due to a missing
> route entry. However, I added it and the problem still persists:
> 
> LVS B:# ip route show
> 10.0.0.10 dev lo  scope link
> 10.0.0.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.0.0.6
> default via 10.0.0.1 dev eth0
> 
> LVS B:# ip route get 10.0.0.10
> local 10.0.0.10 dev lo  src 10.0.0.10
>      cache <local>  mtu 16436 advmss 16396 hoplimit 64
> 
> 
> The massive amount of code behind inet_addr_type() is too much for me
> to trace, although route.c:ip_route_output_slow() (pretty much the
> only relevant place where RTN_LOCAL is assigned to a var) seems to
> indicate that if the output interface is lo, the type should be set to
> RTN_LOCAL. I don't know why this is not the case, and it seems to be
> the root of the problem.

The thing that is confusing me, is that the connection entry
should have the real server set to 10.0.0.6, and that is a local
address on LVS B, and thus ip_vs_null_xmit() should be called.

When I say should, I mean, I think that the code ought to behave that way.
But clearly it isn't for some reason.


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