Chiradeep,

Currently, net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filer is set to 1 in 
systemvm/debian/config/etc/sysctl.conf.  Should it be modified to be 0?

Thanks,
-John

On Oct 4, 2012, at 6:09 PM, Chiradeep Vittal <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> 
wrote:

> It is disabled in sysctl.conf, not sure how it gets re-enabled. See
> patches/systemvm/debian/config/etc/init.d/cloud-early-config (function
> disable_rpfilter).
> Perhaps it is interface-specific rather than "all".
> 
> On 10/4/12 2:39 PM, "John Burwell" <jburw...@basho.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ahmad,
>> 
>> You were correct on the rp_filter issue.  Once disabled, the SSVM was
>> able to connect outbound to S3, as well as, any host reachable from
>> devcloud.  I noticed that rp_filter is disabled in sysctl.conf yet it is
>> somehow being enabled at runtime.  Is this behavior intended?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -John
>> 
>> On Oct 4, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Ahmad Emneina <ahmad.emne...@citrix.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 10/4/12 9:16 AM, "John Burwell" <jburw...@basho.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Kelcey,
>>>> 
>>>> I am a bit confused about how secstorage.allowed.internal.sites is used
>>>> which stems to lack of knowledge regarding the devcloud network
>>>> configuration.  Also, is there documentation available for setting up
>>>> such a NAT? 
>>>> 
>>>> As a point of clarification to my original question, I am working in
>>>> the
>>>> devcloud environment (using the OVA downloaded from the wiki) where I
>>>> need to get the SSVM to connect to S3 or to a local VirtualBox VM
>>>> running
>>>> an S3-compatible object store.  Thus far, I have been unable to get
>>>> devcloud to bring up a second NIC on a host-only network.  I have
>>>> attempted to setup an advanced network configuration as follows:
>>>> 
>>>> Physical Network with VLAN isolation method
>>>> Management Server: 10.0.2.15 -> Gateway: 10.0.2.2
>>>> Storage Network: 10.0.2.50-10.0.2.59 -> Gateway 10.0.2.2 on VLAN0
>>>> Management Network: 10.0.2.200-10.0.2.220 -> Gateway 10.0.2.2
>>>> Public Network: 10.0.2.100-10.0.2.199 -> VLAN0
>>> 
>>> The issue that gets created here is you get system vm's that are
>>> multi-homed. Your system vm's get a nic (leg) on each network... But
>>> that
>>> network is one and the same. Why this is an issue is rp_filter is
>>> enabled
>>> by default on the system vm's, message comes in on one of those nics,
>>> but
>>> it's default route out is another nic... Thus blocking the response.
>>> 
>>> Ideally you'd use a basic zone for this kind of configuration, or else
>>> you'll end up having to log into the system vm's every time a new one is
>>> spawned and disabling rp_filter for the nics. You might want to test
>>> this,
>>> by logging in and disabling rp_filter on the nics and see if things
>>> start
>>> working as expected.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Obviously, my network configuration is incorrect, but I have the
>>>> reached
>>>> the limits of my CloudStack and Xen knowledge to identify the
>>>> problem(s).
>>>> 
>>>> Given this information, what is the best way to give the SSVM access to
>>>> the Internet and/or a VirtualBox host-only network?
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you for your help,
>>>> -John  
>>>> 
>>>> On Oct 3, 2012, at 10:39 PM, "Kelceydamage@bbits" <kel...@bbits.ca>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> The the secondary storage VM can be NATed to from any network router,
>>>>> however the console proxy does not work over NAT.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Oct 3, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Edison Su <edison...@citrix.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> System vm will have 4 nics, eth2 is on the public network, eth1 is
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> private(mgt) network.
>>>>>> The IP address of eth2 is got from pod configuration: in one of IP
>>>>>> address range ["startip", "endip"] in createPod API.
>>>>>> The IP address of eth1 is got from guest network, if it's basic
>>>>>> network mode, this IP range is configured by createVlanIpRanges API
>>>>>> SSVM will connect to mgt server through eth1(mgt server's ip address
>>>>>> is configured to route through eth1), and download template from
>>>>>> eth2.
>>>>>> What's your specific issue about network configuration?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: John Burwell [mailto:jburw...@basho.com]
>>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 7:11 PM
>>>>>>> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
>>>>>>> Subject: SSVM Network Configuration
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> All,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> How do you configure networking to permit the SSVM to connect to the
>>>>>>> public Internet or another internal network?  I have been trying to
>>>>>>> understand the network configuration from the documentation, but am
>>>>>>> missing something in my configuration attempt.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thank you for your assistance,
>>>>>>> -John
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Æ
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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