TEQL and Subnet problem I have a network topology shown below, and I am trying to use TEQL. P1, P2 and P3 are three linux machines, and each has two network cards. P2 and P3 are connected in two ways: (1) directed connection between P2.eth0 and P3.eth0; (2) connection via P1. P1 acts as the gateway. TEQL is installed on P2 and P3 to load-balance packet transmission by round-robin sending packets to eth0 and eth1. I defined P2.teql0, P2.eth1, P1.eth0 as 16.119.144.32/30 subnet, and defined P3.teql0, P3.eth1, P1.eth1 as 16.119.144.64/30 subnet. My problem is: When I ping to P3.teql0 from P2 ("[P2]# ping 16.119.144.66"), the traffic can never go from P2.eth1, and all traffic only goes to P1.eth0. What P2.eth1 (16.119.144.33) did is broadcasting an ARP asking for the MAC address of 16.119.144.66, although I have specified the route to 16.119.144.64/30 is through gateway 16.119.144.32, as shown below. Similarly, when I use ttcp ("ttcp -t -s -n -T -v 200 16.119.144.66"), traffic can never go through P2.eth1. On the other hand, if I "ping -I eth1 16.119.144.66", the ping can go through P2.eth1, P1.eth0, P1.eth1, and to P3.teql0 with no problem. What's wrong and how to fix it? In addition, how to ensure traffic of "ping 16.119.144.66" will go from P2.teql0 instead of P2.eth0 or P2.eth1? By routing table as I have done below? Configuration details (ifconfig, route) are shown below. 1. Topology teql0 144.34 _ _ |_|------- eth0: 144.21 eth0: 144.27 ------|_| teql0: 144.66 | P2 |------------------------------------------------------| P3 | |____| |____| eth1: | | eth1: 144.33 | | 144.65 | | |_______________|------|________________| eth0: 144.32 | P1 | eth1: 144.64 |___ | Machines, network interfaces and their IPs: P1: - eth0: 16.119.144.32 - eth1: 16.119.144.64 P2: - eth0: 16.119.144.21 - eth1: 16.119.144.33 - teql0: 16.119.144.34 P3: - eth0: 16.119.144.27 - eth1: 16.119.144.65 - teql0: 16.119.144.66 2.IP configuration (1) P1: [root@princeton1 root]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:00:5F:FC inet addr:16.119.144.32 Bcast:16.119.145.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:428 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:439 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:36966 (36.0 Kb) TX bytes:36526 (35.6 Kb) Interrupt:11 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:B5:48:1A:54 inet addr:16.119.144.64 Bcast:16.119.145.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:399 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:371 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:34174 (33.3 Kb) TX bytes:33739 (32.9 Kb) Interrupt:5 Base address:0x7800 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:81 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:81 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:7094 (6.9 Kb) TX bytes:7094 (6.9 Kb) (2) P2: [root@princeton2 ~]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:79:94:10:AF inet addr:16.119.144.21 Bcast:16.119.145.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 inet6 addr: fe80::212:79ff:fe94:10af/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1035 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1569 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:89851 (87.7 KiB) TX bytes:1756828 (1.6 MiB) Interrupt:201 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:79:94:10:AE inet addr:16.119.144.33 Bcast:16.119.145.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 inet6 addr: fe80::212:79ff:fe94:10ae/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:200 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:165 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:15954 (15.5 KiB) TX bytes:13792 (13.4 KiB) Interrupt:209 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:5253 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5253 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:7687091 (7.3 MiB) TX bytes:7687091 (7.3 MiB) teql0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr FA-FE-3B-C3-BA-00-F4-EF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 inet addr:16.119.144.34 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1272 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1706684 (1.6 MiB) (3) P3: [root@princeton3 ~]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:79:3C:6F:2D inet addr:16.119.144.27 Bcast:16.119.145.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 inet6 addr: fe80::212:79ff:fe3c:6f2d/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1558 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1074 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1757749 (1.6 MiB) TX bytes:80452 (78.5 KiB) Interrupt:201 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:79:3C:6F:2C inet addr:16.119.144.65 Bcast:16.119.145.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 inet6 addr: fe80::212:79ff:fe3c:6f2c/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:223 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:23057 (22.5 KiB) TX bytes:28712 (28.0 KiB) Interrupt:209 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2784 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2784 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3473742 (3.3 MiB) TX bytes:3473742 (3.3 MiB) teql0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr EB-FE-3B-B3-5B-00-F4-DF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 inet addr:16.119.144.66 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:690 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:38556 (37.6 KiB) 3.Routing Tables (1) P1: [root@princeton1 root]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 16.119.144.64 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.252 U 0 0 0 eth1 16.119.144.32 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.252 U 0 0 0 eth0 16.119.144.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 16.119.144.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 16.119.144.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 (2) P2: [root@princeton2 ~]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 16.119.144.66 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 teql0 16.119.144.32 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1 16.119.144.64 16.119.144.32 255.255.255.252 UG 0 0 0 eth1 16.119.144.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 16.119.144.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 16.119.144.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 (3) P3: [root@princeton3 ~]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 16.119.144.64 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1 16.119.144.34 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 teql0 16.119.144.32 16.119.144.64 255.255.255.252 UG 0 0 0 eth1 16.119.144.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 16.119.144.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 16.119.144.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 4. Enable IP Forwarding on P1 IP forwarding needs only to be enabled on P1. This part should be OK. (1) In /etc/sysconfig/network, add "FORWARD_IPV4=yes" (2) "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward". The default value in Linux is 0. (3) To enable IP forwarding automatically after reboot, change "net.ipv4.ip_forward=1" in /etc/sysctl.conf. (4) Dislab packet filtering: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/rp_filter" "echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth1/rp_filter" _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc