On 23 April 2014 09:17, Charles Plessy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I just received the following bug report on cloud-init.
>
> Does somebody have experience with secondarly elastic network interfaces ?
>
> By the way, I have not yet uploaded cloud-init 7.5, since I still have
> problems
> with the regression tests failign in a minimal environment.  Suggestions
> are
> welcome.
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> -- Charles Plessy, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Holger Levsen <[email protected]> -----
>
> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:06:15 +0200
> From: Holger Levsen <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Bug#745587: base: Cloud AWS EC2 Image will not reply to
> packets received on additional network interface (ENI)
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>
> reassign 745587 cloud-init
> # is that the correct packages for reporting bugs in AWS EC2 debian images?
> # cheers!
> thanks
>
> On Mittwoch, 23. April 2014, Jeff Stiles wrote:
> > Package: base
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > I recently ran into an issue with the AWS EC2 debian image found in the
> AWS
> > Marketplace (ami-1ebcd32e). When attaching a secondary Elastic Network
> > Interface to the the instance during instance configuration and giving it
> > an IP address, there is strange network behaviour. First, the second
> > network interface is not configured authomatically and you must manually
> > add eth1 to /etc/network/interfaces.
> >
> > Upon restarting networking, the interface does acquire its IP address via
> > DHCP from EC2. When sending traffic from eth1, you receive responses.
> > However, when you initate traffic from another system in the same subnet
> > as eth1, eth1 will not reply to the traffic (ICMP, SSH, etc).
> >
> > The strangest part is that if you watch ifconfig for eth1, you will see
> the
> > Rx incrementing from the traffic being sent to it, but with no
> > corresponding Tx traffic. I can confirm that it is not a security group
> > issue as both network interfaces are in the same security group and
> > subnet.
> >
> > I tried the newest Debian AMI and it has the same issue. The Ubuntu
> release
> > in the AWS Marketplace also has the same issue. When spinning up an
> Amazon
> > Linux AMI, there is no issue. The secondary interface is configured on
> > first boot and there is not issue with traffic being handled properly by
> > eth1.
> >
> > Here is a related bug for Ubuntu, but it does not address the issue of
> > additional iterfaces not properly handling traffic:
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1153626
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: 7.4
> >   APT prefers stable-updates
> >   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> >
> > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
> --
> Charles Plessy
> Debian Med packaging team,
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
>
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> First, the second network interface is not configured authomatically and
you must manually add eth1 to /etc/network/interfaces.
Is this actually an issue with cloud-init? Shouldn't debian be able to auto
configure new NICs? Maybe bootstrap-vz is not enabling something that
should be enabled?

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