Re: CARP, openvpn in bridged mode, and ping

Sebastiaan van Erk Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:50:02 -0700

Hi, just to explain further, ARP does not seem to work in the following situation:

client (tap0, 10.0.80.6) -> server (tap0 -> bridge0 -> em1, 10.0.80.77 -> carp1, 10.0.80.1)


On the server I see on the em1 interface with tcpdump:

16:45:56.992297 00:bd:bf:f6:08:00 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 42: arp who-has 10.0.80.1 tell 10.0.80.6


but the server does not reply.

If the client is directly on the em1 interface (another machine which is directly on the LAN and not via the bridge), the server DOES reply:

16:46:47.502250 00:0c:29:e2:46:c8 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 60: arp who-has 10.0.80.1 tell 10.0.80.3 16:46:47.502283 00:0c:29:61:2a:55 > 00:0c:29:e2:46:c8, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 42: arp reply 10.0.80.1 is-at 00:00:5e:00:01:02


Regards,
Sebastiaan

Sebastiaan van Erk wrote:

Hi,
I have the following setup: two servers with a virtual LAN IP address shared with CARP (the hosts are 10.0.80.77 and 10.0.80.76 and the virtual IP address is 10.0.80.1).
When I ping the VIP from any host on the LAN, it works fine.
Next I have some openvpn clients (both 10.0.80.77 and 10.0.80.76 have openvpn servers on their external IPs). The client IPs are on the LAN using a bridge and are 10.0.80.150 (linux client) and 10.0.80.6 (freebsd client).
From linux I can ping the VIP (10.0.80.1) just fine, but when I do arping I see (with tcpdump) that the the ARP requests are received by the carp master on the tap0 device, but that it does not reply.
From a FreeBSD VPN client I cannot ping the VIP (10.0.80.1), because it does the ARP requests indefinitely and gets no answer.
Both machines ping to the other hosts on the LAN just fine (e.g., all of them can ping 10.0.80.77 just fine).
Is there any way to get ARP to work (and thereby, ping to work) in this configuration?
Regards,
Sebastiaan

PS: the relevant ifconfig info is:

10.0.80.77 (carp master and vpn server):
em1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
    options=98<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
    ether 00:0c:29:61:2a:55
    inet 10.0.80.77 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.80.255
    media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
    status: active
bridge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
    ether 12:d8:09:8d:1b:88
    id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
    maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
    root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
    member: tap0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
            ifmaxaddr 0 port 9 priority 128 path cost 2000000
    member: em1 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
            ifmaxaddr 0 port 2 priority 128 path cost 20000
carp1: flags=49<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> metric 0 mtu 1500
    inet 10.0.80.1 netmask 0xffffff00
    carp: MASTER vhid 174 advbase 1 advskew 0
tap0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
    ether 00:bd:c0:02:00:00
    Opened by PID 1199

10.0.80.150 (the linux openvpn client):
tap0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 46:c2:27:c9:36:e3
          inet addr:10.0.80.150  Bcast:10.0.80.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::44c2:27ff:fec9:36e3/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:34336 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12951 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:11939564 (11.9 MB)  TX bytes:1191746 (1.1 MB)

10.0.80.6 (the freebsd openvpn client):
tap0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
    ether 00:bd:bf:f6:08:00
    inet 10.0.80.6 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.80.255
    Opened by PID 71953

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Re: CARP, openvpn in bridged mode, and ping

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