Apparently this is related to some sort of race condition (possibly a problem with my ldirectord start script which does an edit on the ipvsadm config after ldirectord has started) if ldirectord starts to receive traffic on port 67/68 before the following commands are run: ipvsadm -E -u 10.10.10.10:67 -o -s rr ipvsadm -E -u 10.10.10.10:68 -o -s rr Then it will be stuck sending traffic to the fist server in the list. Brian Carpio Senior Systems Engineer Office: +1.303.962.7242 Mobile: +1.720.319.8617 Email: bcarpio@xxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: linux-ha-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-ha-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Carpio Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 3:47 PM To: 'Simon Horman' Cc: 'lvs-devel'; 'Julian Anastasov'; 'linux-ha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: Re: [Linux-HA] UDP / DHCP / LDIRECTORD All, So this patch has been working for us flawlessly for the last 5 months or so. Our infrastructure is 100% virtualized, the other day our loadbalacner01 had a memory leak and crashed, since we use ldirectord with heartbeat loadbalacner02 took over, however ever since then it seems like the single packet UDP scheduling has stopped working. Even if I fail back over the loadbalacner01 VM, I still see all the DHCP traffic going to only one backend server. If I run ipvsadm -L -n I can see that ipvsadm thinks both of the backend servers are up since the weight is set to 1 for each server, if I reboot the second backend server the one which is not receiving any traffic then run ipvsadm -L -n I can see its weight go to 0 and in the ldirectord log I can see that its marked dead. I have exported one of the loadblancers and one of the backend servers (using VMware) and imported them into another ESXi server, once I boot up the loadbalacner it works perfectly... I'm very stumped why this would happen, is there any additional logging you can think of that I might want to enable to see where the exact problem is? Here are my configs: /etc/ha.d/ldirectord.conf checktimeout=10 checkinterval=2 autoreload=yes logfile="/var/log/ldirectord.log" quiescent=yes virtual=10.10.10.10:67 real=backend_server01:67 masq real=backend_server02:67 masq protocol=udp checktype=ping scheduler=rr virtual=10.10.10.10:68 real=back_endserver01:68 masq real=backend_server02:68 masq protocol=udp checktype=ping scheduler=rr I had to rewrite the ldirectord start script and added the following lines in the start and restart sections: ipvsadm -E -u 10.10.10.10:67 -o -s rr ipvsadm -E -u 10.10.10.10:68 -o -s rr Here is the output of ipvsadm -L -n when both backend servers are up (working environment): IP Virtual Server version 1.2.1 (size=4096) Prot LocalAddress:Port Scheduler Flags -> RemoteAddress:Port Forward Weight ActiveConn InActConn UDP 10.10.10.10:67 rr ops -> backend_server01:67 Masq 1 0 16731 -> backend_server02:67 Masq 1 0 17447 UDP 192.168.181.67:68 rr ops -> backend_server01:68 Masq 1 0 0 -> backend_server02:68 Masq 1 0 0 Here is the output of ipvsadm -L -n when both backend servers are up (non-working environment): [root@lb01 log]# ipvsadm -L -n IP Virtual Server version 1.2.1 (size=4096) Prot LocalAddress:Port Scheduler Flags -> RemoteAddress:Port Forward Weight ActiveConn InActConn UDP 10.10.10.10:67 rr ops -> backend_server01:67 Masq 1 0 1 -> backend_server02:67 Masq 1 0 0 UDP 10.10.10.10:68 rr ops -> backend_server01:68 Masq 1 0 0 -> backend_server02:68 Masq 1 0 0 The only difference I see is that in my "Working" environment my InActConn number increases as I send load through it, in my "Non-Working" environment the InActConn stays at 1 the entire time.. Another difference is that in the "Working" environment I am using a DHCP load testing tool one of my developers wrote, whereas in the "NON-Working" environment we are actually getting DHCP traffic from another network device... Brian Carpio Senior Systems Engineer Office: +1.303.962.7242 Mobile: +1.720.319.8617 Email: bcarpio@xxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: Brian Carpio Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 1:57 PM To: Simon Horman Cc: linux-ha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; lvs-devel; Julian Anastasov Subject: RE: [Linux-HA] UDP / DHCP / LDIRECTORD Simon, Thanks again for all of your hard work, I have sent over a million UDP DHCP packets at the new kernel/ipvsadm with the patches applied and currently the only issue (which you know about already) is that ldirectord doesn't know about the -o option which causes a slight issue with heartbeat (but I just put in a cheap fix in my ldirectord start script to edit the services created by ldirectord).. So not only have I sent over 1,000,000 packets to this setup but I have also sent them as fast as 10 packets every 3 milliseconds, I plan to do a long term week long test but I don't foresee any issues.. Let me know if there is any other testing you would like us to do.. or if you would like me to send out the kernel-2.6.18-128 with the patch and the ipvsadm-1.24-10 rpm with the patch.. Thanks again Simon you are the man!! Brian Carpio -----Original Message----- From: Simon Horman [mailto:horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 8:56 PM To: Brian Carpio Cc: linux-ha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; lvs-devel; Julian Anastasov Subject: Re: [Linux-HA] UDP / DHCP / LDIRECTORD Hi Brian, here are some patches to test. I have only lightly tested them to the extent that they compile and appear to configure a valid service. You can enable one packet scheduling (OPS) by passing the -o option to ipvsadm when creating a virtual service. e.g. # ipvsadm -A -u 172.17.60.211:80 -o # ipvsadm -L -n IP Virtual Server version 1.2.1 (size=4096) Prot LocalAddress:Port Scheduler Flags -> RemoteAddress:Port Forward Weight ActiveConn InActConn UDP 172.17.60.211:80 wlc ops There are three patches: ops-kernel-2.6.18-128.el5.patch: Patch against CentOS-5.3's 2.6.18-128 kernel. ops-ipvsadm-1.24-10: Patch against CentOS-5.3's ipvsadm 1.24-10. ops-ipvsadm-1.24: Patch against upstream ipvsadm 1.24 I have not up-ported the code to the 2.6.33 kernel and ipvsadm 1.25 yet. No virus found in this incoming message. 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