Comment 2 for bug 1781856

Changing the default gateway seems very much a bandaid solution, as if you
have >1 interface, sort of by definition you want some traffic to go out
one interface for a reason different to other traffic. And changing the
'default' is going to be wrong for some portion of your traffic.

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 2:40 AM, Dmitrii Shcherbakov <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Since you linked the bug I created about multi-homing you might know the
> workarounds already but I will summarize them just in case.
>
> One of the ways to workaround the problem is using source-based policy
> routing (as you mentioned) for receiving TCP traffic. For sending
> traffic static routes have to be used as the destination host has to be
> known to direct traffic to the right outbound hop.
>
> I suspect that using a charm to set policy rules can be a problem if the
> "first space" is not the one that needs to be used to contact the Juju
> controller from a machine/unit agent and the controller is not on the
> same L2 (in a different subnet) - this case could be quite relevant with
> L3 leaf-spine deployments with Juju HA enabled.
>
> Regardless of how this is applied (cloud-init or charm), the following
> could be used:
>
> 1) with TCP (even with using an unbound listening socket -
> 0.0.0.0/INADDR_ANY, see man 2 listen and man 7 ip), you can rely on the
> fact that a connected socket of your TCP server will use a source
> address that was specified as a destination address on a client. When
> the client creates its own socket (5-tuple) to establish a TCP
> connection, it does not expect a source address of a response packet to
> magically change. Unless there is a broken NAT configuration, the
> receiving host with the TCP server uses received_packet.destination_addr
> as connected_socket.source_addr.
>
> This allows you to avoid static routes and handle "unknown sender"
> scenarios correctly for receiving traffic with the following rules:
>
> CIDR=192.168.1.0/24 # e.g. if you have eth1 <-> 192.168.1.10
> ip route add default via $GATEWAY table $TABLE # add a default route to a
> different table
> # add a policy rule to use per-interface-subnet routing tables without
> hitting rp_filter by using asymmetric routing
> ip rule add from $CIDR table $TABLE priority $PRIORITY
>
> The trick is that a request will come to 192.168.1.10 from, say, 1.1.1.1
> and a response source address will be selected as 192.168.1.10. The TCP
> server's kernel will then inspect the response packet source address and
> forward it using a $GATEWAY in $TABLE. This might be counter-intuitive
> as the locally-generated response is a subject of a policy rule - not a
> request.
>
> A simple charm that could be used for that lives here (it can be improved
> to avoid hard-coding the interface):
> https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-bootstack/charm-
> policy-routing/tree/hooks/config-changed
> https://jujucharms.com/u/canonical-bootstack/policy-routing
>
> 2) For UDP and unbound sockets (INADDR_ANY) the problem is that you only
> have one receiving (listening) socket and no connected socket. Your UDP
> server kernel figures out a source address to use during sendto(2)
> execution (getsockname would get the result). This is nicely summarized
> here: http://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20171020-local_ip_unbound_udp/
>
> Fortunately, most of our workloads are TCP and we do not hit that
> problem that often. For OpenStack deployments designate-bind might be
> problematic in case multiple interfaces are used for its container.
>
> 3) For sending traffic either static routes or VRF + SO_BINDTODEVICE
> have to be used as you either have to know exactly how to route to a
> given end host or bind a socket used for sending to a certain interface
> associated with a routing table through a VRF.
>
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