From: Andrew Watkins (andrew@dcs.bbk.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 13 2005 - 06:17:49 EDT
Hi folks,
An interesting problem which I want to check out before asking Sun:
External hosts can not contact a sun server on 1 on the interfaces depending
on which default router is configured.
Server (zeus):
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Solaris 9 has 2 networks interfaces
193.61.29.14
and 193.61.28.143
and default gateway 193.61.28.245.
Client (pc-em5):
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193.61.44.37% ping 193.61.28.143
zeus alive
193.61.44.37% ping 193.61.29.14
no answer from zeus
The problem is that the packet arrives on 193.61.29.14 interface on zeus
> IP: Source address = 193.61.44.37, pc-em5
> IP: Destination address = 193.61.29.14, zeus
bge0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 193.61.29.14 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 193.61.29.255
and it sends it out via the default gateway which is on 193.61.28 interface.
> IP: Source address = 193.61.29.14, zeus
> IP: Destination address = 193.61.44.37, pc-em5.dcs.bbk.ac.uk
bge1: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 3
inet 193.61.28.143 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 193.61.28.255
This would normally work, but the problem is that the router has
anti-spoofing enabled which means that it blocks the outgoing packet since
it is not arrive via this router!
If I swap the default gateway to be the 193.61.29.245 it then works the
other way round
Client:
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193.61.44.37% ping 193.61.29.14
zeus alive
193.61.44.37% ping 193.61.28.143
no answer from zeus
1) We don't have this problem on MS Windows 2 interface machines, since it
looks like windows sends the packets to specific interfaces/routers.
2) I have tried setting up 2 default gateways but that does not help since
solaris uses them as round robin setup.
3) I have played with setting up some other routes, but have not cracked it.
4) The only work round at the moment is I have removed the 2nd IP addresses
from our DNS so all traffic comes via one route.
Any thoughts (We don't have any control over the routers!)
Andrew
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