Randy,
The problem is the gateway on the backend webservers needs to be set as a VIP 
(or eth1 interface) on the HAproxy servers on their private interface (assuming 
you have two HAproxy servers and are using heartbeat for failover). It looks 
like from your routing table that eth0 on the webservers' gateway is pointed to 
the eth0 interface on haproxy this is why it works perfectly when you configure 
haproxy to use the public IPs on the webservers.

Once you change the default gateway on the backend webserver's to use eth1 on 
the haproxy server (or a VIP which lives on eth1 using heartbeat for failover 
between two haproxy servers) then it will work.

Brian Carpio
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From: Randy Wilson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 8:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Tproxy with multiple interfaces

Hi,

I'm trying to setup an HAProxy instance to transparently load balance a group 
of web servers. The HAProxy server and web servers each have two interfaces; 
eth0 as the public interface and eth1 the private. I'm trying to configure the 
load balancer to accept requests on port 80 on eth0 and transparently proxy the 
connections to the web servers over the private interfaces on eth1. I've 
configured the load balancer in the normal way for tproxy, and have the web 
servers routing out through it.

i.e.

iptables -t mangle -N DIVERT
iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m socket -j DIVERT
iptables -t mangle -A DIVERT -j MARK --set-mark 1
iptables -t mangle -A DIVERT -j ACCEPT

ip rule add fwmark 1 dev eth0 lookup 100
ip rule add fwmark 1 dev eth1 lookup 100
ip route add local 0.0.0.0/0<http://0.0.0.0/0> dev lo table 100

root@haproxy:~# sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

root@web:~# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
xxx.xxx.97.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.252.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
0.0.0.0         xxx.xxx.97.155  0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

...
server web1 192.168.3.65:80<http://192.168.3.65:80> source 192.168.3.64 usesrc 
clientip
...

When testing this setup, the connection is correctly proxied to the web server 
through eth1 and a response is sent back to the HAProxy server on eth0, but 
it's ignored and the connection hangs.


Here's some netstat output during the connection:

HAProxy:

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       
PID/Program name
tcp        0      1 xxx.xxx.48.1:42424      
192.168.3.65:80<http://192.168.3.65:80>         SYN_SENT    1386/haproxy
tcp        0      0 xxx.xxx.97.155:80       xxx.xxx.48.1:42424      ESTABLISHED 
1386/haproxy

Web Server:

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       
PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 192.168.3.65:80<http://192.168.3.65:80>         
xxx.xxx.48.1:42424      SYN_RECV    -


And the relevant entries from a tcpdump on each interface on each server:

HAProxy/eth0  IP xxx.xxx.48.1.42424 > xxx.xxx.97.155.80: Flags [S], seq 
1021535895, win 5840, options [mss 1418,sackOK,TS val 2448718 ecr 0,nop,wscale 
7], length 0

HAProxy/eth0  IP xxx.xxx.97.155.80 > xxx.xxx.48.1.42424: Flags [S.], seq 
504489330, ack 1158274356, win 5792, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 230477 ecr 
1407043,nop,wscale 7], length 0

HAProxy/eth0  IP xxx.xxx.48.1.42424 > xxx.xxx.97.155.80: Flags [.], ack 1, win 
46, options [nop,nop,TS val 1407043 ecr 230477], length 0

HAproxy/eth1 IP xxx.xxx.48.1.42424 > 192.168.3.65.80: Flags [S], seq 391399045, 
win 5840, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 230550 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0

Web/eth1 IP xxx.xxx.48.1.42424 > 192.168.3.65.80: Flags [S], seq 391399045, win 
5840, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 230550 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0

Web/eth0 IP 192.168.3.65.80 > xxx.xxx.48.1.42424: Flags [S.], seq 4033028970, 
ack 391399046, win 5792, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 6751967 ecr 
230550,nop,wscale 7], length 0

HAproxy/eth0 IP 192.168.3.65.80 > xxx.xxx.48.1.42424: Flags [S.], seq 
4033028970, ack 391399046, win 5792, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 6751967 
ecr 230550,nop,wscale 7], length 0


NB. In this example I had set the usesrc setting to client so the client's port 
was used for readability, but the same occurs with clientip.

I'm sure this is occurring because the response connection is arriving on a 
different interface to the one HAProxy originated the connection to the web 
server on. Does anyone know of a way around this? Is there an iptables or ip 
rule that can be set to switch the return traffic from eth0 to eth1?

I have tried testing the setup by proxying the connections to the web server's 
public interface on eth0 instead:

...
server web1 xxx.xxx.97.156:80 source xxx.xxx.97.155 usesrc clientip
...

And the transparent proxying works perfectly.

Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated.


Many thanks,

REW

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