[OpenSIPS-Users] OpenSIPS mhomed=yes and shared IP address using corosync

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu bogdan at opensips.org
Tue Nov 12 17:32:31 CET 2013


Hi Remco,

Perfect, thanks for the update. Anyhow, I already started the work on
the drouting and load-balancing module to allow you to set a certain
interface for interacting with each destination/gateway.

Regards,

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
OpenSIPS Founder and Developer
http://www.opensips-solutions.com


On 11/08/2013 01:15 PM, Remco . wrote:
> Hi Bogdan,
>
> The proposed solution works. Instead of modifying IPaddr2 is opted to
> go for IPsrcaddr (also included as resource agent with corosync /
> linux HA stack). This agent ensures the correct source IP address is
> used for the default route. For the other subnet / interface, I
> removed the static IP addresses for both nodes and only installed a
> floating IP address. This can be enabled by setting
> /proc/sys//net///ipv4///conf///all///promote_secondaries to 1.
> /
> This allows the kernel to choose the correct IP address for binding
> opensips, and still have a default route. mhomed=yes works like
> expected in this scenario.
>
> Regards,
> Remco.
>
> /
>
> /
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
> <bogdan at opensips.org <mailto:bogdan at opensips.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Remco,
>
>     OK, if your approach does not work, keep in mind you can still use
>     local_route to change the outbound socket for the probing OPTIONs.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
>     OpenSIPS Founder and Developer
>     http://www.opensips-solutions.com
>
>
>     On 11/02/2013 02:50 PM, Remco . wrote:
>>     Hi Bogdan,
>>
>>     Thanks for your reply. The feature of setting the probe interface
>>     for DR would be great. In the meantime, I studied the exact
>>     behavior of the IPaddr2 resource agent a bit more. It turns out
>>     it uses iproute2 to bind the address. The VIP is added as a
>>     secondary IP address to the interface - no wonder the kernel
>>     picks the primary. I will see if I can modify the resource agent
>>     a bit so it will add the VIP as the primary IP (swap the IP
>>     addresses round). That way, the mhomed=yes option will work. I
>>     will report back my findings.
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>
>>     Remco.
>>
>>
>>     On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
>>     <bogdan at opensips.org <mailto:bogdan at opensips.org>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hello Remco,
>>
>>         In mhomed, yes you let the kernel to pick the source IP based
>>         on the routing table - so this approach delegate the logic
>>         from OpenSIPS to the kernel. And it is up to ho well the
>>         network part is set.
>>
>>         In the future I would like to add to the DR module the
>>         possibility to set the probing interface (as you have now in
>>         the dispatcher module). For now, what you can do is to use
>>         the local_route to catch the DR pings and use
>>         force_send_socket() to change the outgoing interface.
>>
>>         Best regards,
>>
>>         Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
>>         OpenSIPS Founder and Developer
>>         http://www.opensips-solutions.com
>>
>>
>>         On 11/01/2013 10:39 AM, Remco . wrote:
>>>         Hi all,
>>>
>>>         I have a clustered OpenSIPS setup (using corosync with a
>>>         virtual IP address). This has been working great over the
>>>         last couple of years. I now want to add an extra IP address
>>>         to the boxes, again floating a VIP over these interfaces.
>>>         These interfaces will be used to communicate with PSTN
>>>         gateways. I noticed however upon enabling these interfaces,
>>>         the drouting module starts to ping the gateways using the
>>>         wrong source address, i.e
>>>
>>>         1.1.1.1 = VIP on eth0
>>>         2.2.2.2 = VIP on eth1
>>>
>>>         OpenSIPS is configured to listen on the the two VIPs with a
>>>         listen directive.
>>>
>>>         According to the kernel's routing table, it should use
>>>         2.2.2.2 but it uses 1.1.1.1 which results in failure. As I
>>>         understood, mhomed=yes should achieve just this behavior by
>>>         asking the kernel for the appropriate source address on
>>>         sending out a packet. However, when I enable the mhomed
>>>         option, OpenSIPS starts to complain about not having a
>>>         socket to send out the packets. I assume this is caused by
>>>         the kernel returning the real IP from the interfaces (first)
>>>         instead of the VIPs.
>>>
>>>         Just because of the dynamic nature of the interface
>>>         selection, I won't be able to use force_send_socket().
>>>
>>>         I know this question has come up on the list on several
>>>         occasions, but nothing recent and I was still wondering if
>>>         someone has a workaround or solution for this. I can imagine
>>>         when using OpenSIPS as a load-balancer with two interfaces
>>>         (in and out) you might encounter this problem as well if you
>>>         try to add high availability (in which you often cannot
>>>         avoid the Virtual IP scenario).
>>>
>>>         Thanks,
>>>         Remco.
>>>
>>>
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