[Cluster-devel] Re: [PATCH] [DLM] Bind connections from known local address when using TCP

[Steven Whitehouse]

Hi,

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 14:02 +0000, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 18:49 -0400, Lon Hohberger wrote:
> >> A common problem occurs when multiple IP addresses within the same
> >> subnet are assigned to the same NIC.  If we make a connection attempt to
> >> another address on the same subnet as one of those addresses, the
> >> connection attempt will not necessarily be routed from the address we
> >> want.
> >>
> >> In the case of the DLM, the other nodes will quickly drop the connection
> >> attempt, causing problems.
> >>
> >> This patch makes the DLM bind to the local address it acquired from the
> >> cluster manager when using TCP prior to making a connection, obviating
> >> the need for administrators to "fix" their systems or use clever routing
> >> tricks.
> >>
> > 
> > I'm happy to apply the patch, but I wonder why not just set the prefsrc
> > for the route? That will fix it for all applications not just the DLM.
> > Also if there are multiple NICs in the system with the same IP address
> > set assigned to them, then this solution may fail whereas the prefsrc
> > solution will continue to work as that allows specification of a device
> > too (amoung other things),
> 
> I think it's appropriate to fix this in the DLM code. DLM doesn't work without
> it in this situation and there night (possibly!?) be applications that don't
> want prefsrc setting.
> 
Ok, well I'll put the patch in, but it still sounds very odd to me. If
they really need to do different things for different applications then
setting the fwmark and doing route by fwmark would be the sensible
solution,

Steve.