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Re: [lvs-users] IPv6 broken in 3.9 kernel? (UNCLASSIFIED)

To: "Kash, Howard M CIV (US)" <howard.m.kash.civ@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [lvs-users] IPv6 broken in 3.9 kernel? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Cc: "lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:16:43 +0300 (EEST)
        Hello,

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, Kash, Howard M CIV (US) wrote:

> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
> 
> 
> It appears to be an IPv6 routing issue rather than an IPVS issue.  With the 
> 3.8.8 kernel, the following routes to the real servers appear automatically 
> in the routing table:
> 
> 2001:x:x:x::30/128  2001:x:x:x::30 UC 0  694882451  2 bond0
> 2001:x:x:x::40/128  2001:x:x:x::40 UC 0  695098682  2 bond0
> 2001:x:x:x::50/128  2001:x:x:x::50 UC 0  870214     2 bond0
> 
> With the 3.9.3 kernel these route do not appear, and attempts to send DNS 
> queries to the real server from the load balancer give "no route to host" 
> errors.  Manually adding routes fixes the issue:
> 
> route -A inet6 add 2001:x:x:x::30/128 gw 2001:x:x:x::30 dev bond0
> route -A inet6 add 2001:x:x:x::40/128 gw 2001:x:x:x::40 dev bond0
> route -A inet6 add 2001:x:x:x::50/128 gw 2001:x:x:x::50 dev bond0
> 
> This seems like a kludge, but I haven't figured out what the root cause of 
> the issue is.

        Thanks for the explanation. I don't know IPv6 well
enough to comment...

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>

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