Hi Azeez,

I am not clear how this fits within the big picture? Did you mean to
use this only for LXC case or for general MT/LB case as well? If yes,
where we do the MT specific bit?

--Srinath

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is awesome Azeez - much better than adding routes to the LB node!
>
> I've been thinking about the network address problem .. what set of IPs to
> use for the LXCs. Using 10.* or 192.168.* requires manual intervention
> because anything we pick may be an already used network the organization ..
> and those will then become inaccessible to any app running inside an LXC.
>
> I looked at 169.254 and it looks like that's an option. See [1][2][3] .. its
> called a "link local" address and it seems like the right thing for us to
> use. So we'd give say 169.254.99.* for the internal boxes and have iptables
> forward the ports to those. Looks like we can simply bring up the LXC, have
> it pick up whatever IP in the 169.254 range and then add a default route to
> the host IP and register itself with the host (host IP would have to be a
> boot param).
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network
> [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5735
> [3] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3927
>
> Sanjiva.
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I have got this working for the well-known membership scheme. Let's test
>> it with the LXC setup tomorrow. The route addition to the LB machine is not
>> a scalable approach since we will need to do this in all worker node
>> machines as well since the members in a cluster should be able to
>> communicate with each other.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I just went through the Tribes code and figured out that the local member
>>> host and bind address can be configured to be different values. It is the
>>> localMemberHost that is advertised by Tribes while
>>> the localMemberBindAddress is the IP address used for binding the server
>>> socket. I will make the necessary changes to Axis2 and inform this list. My
>>> plan is to add a new optional parameter called localMemberBindAddress to the
>>> axis2.xml's clustering section, in addition to the already existing
>>> localMemberHost. If localMemberBindAddress is not specified, we assume that
>>> it is same as the localMemberHost.
>>>
>>> e.g.
>>>          <parameter name="localMemberHost">10.100.3.67</parameter>
>>>
>>>         <parameter
>>> name="localMemberBindAddress">192.168.1.121</parameter>
>>>
>>> Then we have to setup iptables on the physical machine to do port
>>> forwarding. In this model, we have to make sure that all Carbon processes
>>> started within LXCs have unique ports. Otherwise the port forwarding will
>>> not work.
>>>
>>> Thoughts welcome.
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
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