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Commit 58deb77c authored by Matteo Croce's avatar Matteo Croce Committed by David S. Miller
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bonding: balance ICMP echoes in layer3+4 mode



The bonding uses the L4 ports to balance flows between slaves. As the ICMP
protocol has no ports, those packets are sent all to the same device:

    # tcpdump -qltnni veth0 ip |sed 's/^/0: /' &
    # tcpdump -qltnni veth1 ip |sed 's/^/1: /' &
    # ping -qc1 192.168.0.2
    1: IP 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.0.2: ICMP echo request, id 315, seq 1, length 64
    1: IP 192.168.0.2 > 192.168.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 315, seq 1, length 64
    # ping -qc1 192.168.0.2
    1: IP 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.0.2: ICMP echo request, id 316, seq 1, length 64
    1: IP 192.168.0.2 > 192.168.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 316, seq 1, length 64
    # ping -qc1 192.168.0.2
    1: IP 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.0.2: ICMP echo request, id 317, seq 1, length 64
    1: IP 192.168.0.2 > 192.168.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 317, seq 1, length 64

But some ICMP packets have an Identifier field which is
used to match packets within sessions, let's use this value in the hash
function to balance these packets between bond slaves:

    # ping -qc1 192.168.0.2
    0: IP 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.0.2: ICMP echo request, id 303, seq 1, length 64
    0: IP 192.168.0.2 > 192.168.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 303, seq 1, length 64
    # ping -qc1 192.168.0.2
    1: IP 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.0.2: ICMP echo request, id 304, seq 1, length 64
    1: IP 192.168.0.2 > 192.168.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 304, seq 1, length 64

Aso, let's use a flow_dissector_key which defines FLOW_DISSECTOR_KEY_ICMP,
so we can balance pings encapsulated in a tunnel when using mode encap3+4:

    # ping -q 192.168.1.2 -c1
    0: IP 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.0.2: GREv0, length 102: IP 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.2: ICMP echo request, id 585, seq 1, length 64
    0: IP 192.168.0.2 > 192.168.0.1: GREv0, length 102: IP 192.168.1.2 > 192.168.1.1: ICMP echo reply, id 585, seq 1, length 64
    # ping -q 192.168.1.2 -c1
    1: IP 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.0.2: GREv0, length 102: IP 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.2: ICMP echo request, id 586, seq 1, length 64
    1: IP 192.168.0.2 > 192.168.0.1: GREv0, length 102: IP 192.168.1.2 > 192.168.1.1: ICMP echo reply, id 586, seq 1, length 64

Signed-off-by: default avatarMatteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 5dec597e
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