Re: corosync behind a NAT or within docker

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You might want to ask again on the Clusterlabs mailing list, most
discussion has moved there.

On 09/10/15 06:03 PM, Christopher Harvey wrote:
> I'm been looking at the corosync source code to see if I could figure
> out a way to get it to run behind a NAT (or in my case, within a docker
> container). I'm only interested in the unicast UDP case. It looks like
> corosync is sending commit tokens to all discovered nodes, and these
> commit tokens include the IP addresses of all discovered nodes,
> including the 'this' node. That is, in a two node case, if node A is a
> machine with an interface with IP 192.168.0.1, and machine B is on the
> WAN with IP 7.7.7.7, node A sends a commit token like this:
> dest: 7.7.7.7
>   nodeid: 0   ip: 192.168.0.1
> 
> node B sees this token, updates it's own commit token with the IP
> 192.168.0.1 and in turn tries to contact 192.168.0.1, which of course
> fails because there is no corosync host running on B's network. I'm a
> little fuzzy on the details because I've only just started to look at
> this, but it looks like node B forgets about the configured WAN address
> of A and overwrites it with A's internal IP.
> 
> Why would a node on a corosync cluster send its own IP address as part
> of a commit token? Why wouldn't each node implicitly know there was a
> sender node in addition to the list of nodes that already exists in the
> received commit token?
> 
> I'm guessing I'm not the first person to want to run corosync behind a
> NAT, but a google search hasn't turned up much as to why this isn't
> supported. I can't think of a technical reason, and it bothers me.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
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