Re: routing bug?

[Sven-Haegar Koch]

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usefull answer.

On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Pozsár Balázs wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have been struggling with this not easily reproducible issue since a while.
> I am using linux kernel v3.1.0, and sometimes routing to a few IP addresses
> does not work. What seems to happen is that instead of sending the packet to
> the gateway, the kernel treats the destination address as local, and tries to
> gets its MAC address via ARP.
> 
> For example, now my current IP address is 172.16.1.104/24, the gateway is
> 172.16.1.254:
> 
> |# ifconfig eth0 eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1B:63:97:FC:DC
>           inet addr:172.16.1.104  Bcast:172.16.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:230772 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:171013 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:191879370 (182.9 Mb)  TX bytes:47173253 (44.9 Mb)
>           Interrupt:17
> 
> # route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
> 0.0.0.0         172.16.1.254    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
> 172.16.1.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     1      0        0 eth0
> |
> 
> I can ping a few addresses, but not 172.16.0.59:
> 
> |# ping -c1 172.16.1.254
> PING 172.16.1.254 (172.16.1.254) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 172.16.1.254: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.383 ms
> 
> --- 172.16.1.254 ping statistics ---
> 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.383/0.383/0.383/0.000 ms
> root@pozsybook:~# ping -c1 172.16.0.1
> PING 172.16.0.1 (172.16.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 172.16.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=5.54 ms
> 
> --- 172.16.0.1 ping statistics ---
> 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 5.545/5.545/5.545/0.000 ms
> root@pozsybook:~# ping -c1 172.16.0.2
> PING 172.16.0.2 (172.16.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 172.16.0.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=62 time=7.92 ms
> 
> --- 172.16.0.2 ping statistics ---
> 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 7.925/7.925/7.925/0.000 ms
> root@pozsybook:~# ping -c1 172.16.0.59
> PING 172.16.0.59 (172.16.0.59) 56(84) bytes of data.
> From 172.16.1.104 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
> 
> --- 172.16.0.59 ping statistics ---
> 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 0ms
> |
> 
> When trying to ping 172.16.0.59, I can see in tcpdump that an ARP req was
> sent:
> 
> |# tcpdump -n -i eth0|grep ARP
> tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
> listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
> 15:25:16.671217 ARP, Request who-has 172.16.0.59 tell 172.16.1.104, length 28
> |
> 
> and /proc/net/arp has an incomplete entry for 172.16.0.59:
> 
> |# grep 172.16.0.59 /proc/net/arp
> 
> 172.16.0.59      0x1         0x0         00:00:00:00:00:00     *        eth0
> |
> 
> Please note, that 172.16.0.59 /is/ accessible from this LAN from other
> computers.
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any idea of what's going on? Thanks,
> 
> 
> Balazs Pozsar
> 
> ps: I think it is related to this one: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/16/292
> 
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