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Date:      Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:53:46 -0300
From:      Raimundo Santos <raitech@gmail.com>
To:        "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@freebsd.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists - but not only with alias command
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Upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2-RELEASE, problem solved.

Thank you all!
Raimundo Santos


On 17 October 2013 14:31, Raimundo Santos <raitech@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Oh my... I forgot to reply to list... an here we go again!
>
>
>
> On 17 October 2013 13:46, Alexander V. Chernikov <melifaro@freebsd.org>wrote:
>
>>  On 17.10.2013 18:25, Raimundo Santos wrote:
>>
>>  On 17 October 2013 04:05, Alexander V. Chernikov <melifaro@freebsd.org>wrote:
>>
>>> This seems rather strange. I'm using multiple fibs in production, and it
>>> shouldn't behave that way.
>>>
>>>
>>  It occurs even with aliases.
>>
>>>
>>> Can you do the following and send me output?
>>>
>>> 1) issue `route -n monitor` and log all messages
>>> 2) add first address to interface
>>> 3) do route -n get network_address (e.g. XX.XX.XX.16/28) for added
>>> prefix (in fib 0 and fib 1)
>>> 4) remove this address
>>> 5) repeat step 3
>>> 6) add this prefix to another port
>>> 7) repeat step 3
>>>
>>>
>>  Hello, Alexander!
>>
>>  The machine in question are under production, too. It hurts the results
>> if I do these steps without removing all the addresses from the interface?
>>
>>  By the way, this machine is a "border" router (not using BGP by now,
>> but over the borders of my network and my providers network). All the
>> addresses over this Intel NIC are routable, except in one port, where we
>> have some equipment lying out the network (just don't ask why...) and all
>> of them have private addresses. I saw the issue when trying to comunicate
>> to these equipments adding and removing aliases in one of the ports. That
>> said, there is an intersting output, after removing ALL the aliases from
>> the refered NIC port:
>>
>>  command issued:
>>
>> for i in `seq 0 14`; do \
>>  echo "fib $i" >> routing.fibs; \
>>  setfib $i netstat -rnfinet | grep '172\.31\.' >> routing.fibs; \
>>  echo "--------------------------------" >> routing.fibs; \
>> done
>>
>>  status of igb1 and 2:
>>
>> igb1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>>
>> options=401bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO>
>>         ether 00:1b:21:5a:93:31
>>         inet6 fe80::21b:21ff:fe5a:9331%igb1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
>>         inet (routable addr) netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast (routable addr
>> broadcast)
>>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>         media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
>>         status: active
>>
>> igb2: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>>
>> options=401bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO>
>>         ether 00:1b:21:5a:93:34
>>         inet (routable addr) netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast (routable
>> broadcast)
>>         inet6 fe80::21b:21ff:fe5a:9334%igb2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>>         status: active
>>
>>  And the output of the commands:
>>
>> fib 0
>> 172.31.19.0/24     172.31.19.190      U           0        0   igb1
>> 172.31.20.0/24     172.31.20.190      U           0        0   igb2
>>
>>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^
>> This is probably installed by some routing daemon (issuing RTM_CHANGE
>> message)
>> (can be easily checked with `route -n monitor`)
>> This is fixed in r248070 ( and merged to 9.2)
>>
>>   --------------------------------
>> fib 1
>> 172.31.19.0/24     link#2             U           0        0   igb1
>> --------------------------------
>> fib 2
>> 172.31.19.0/24     link#2             U           0        0   igb1
>> --------------------------------
>> fib 3
>> 172.31.19.0/24     link#2             U           0        0   igb1
>> --------------------------------
>> fib 4
>> 172.31.19.0/24     link#2             U           0        0   igb1
>> --------------------------------
>> fib 5
>> 172.31.19.0/24     link#2             U           0        0   igb1
>> --------------------------------
>> fib 6
>> 172.31.19.0/24     link#2             U           0        0   igb1
>> --------------------------------
>> fib 7
>> 172.31.19.0/24     link#2             U           0        0   igb1
>> --------------------------------
>> fib 8
>> 172.31.19.0/24     link#2             U           0        0   igb1
>> --------------------------------
>> fib 9
>> 172.31.19.0/24     link#2             U           0        0   igb1
>> --------------------------------
>> fib 10
>> 172.31.19.0/24     link#2             U           0        0   igb1
>> --------------------------------
>> fib 11
>> 172.31.19.0/24     link#2             U           0        0   igb1
>> --------------------------------
>> fib 12
>> 172.31.19.0/24     link#2             U           0        0   igb1
>> --------------------------------
>> fib 13
>> 172.31.19.0/24     link#2             U           0        0   igb1
>> --------------------------------
>> fib 14
>> 172.31.19.0/24     link#2             U           0        0   igb1
>> --------------------------------
>>
>>  I never set 172.31.whatever over igb2! Just over igb1.
>>
>>  Just to remeber:
>>
>>  kernel options
>>
>> options VIMAGE
>>
>> # routing options
>> options     ROUTETABLES=15
>> # IPFW options
>> options     IPFIREWALL_FORWARD
>> options     IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE
>> options     IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=300
>> options     IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT
>>
>> Under
>>
>> FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p4
>>
>>  Thank you for your time!
>>
>>
>>
> Okey, Alexander, I found the culprit: routed, running in this machine as
> pid 99399. This is the result of 'route -n monitor' after doing a for loop
> over all fibs and manualy removing 172.31.19/24 and 172.31.20/24. First
> two, the deletes, last two, the adds. No RTM_CHANGE, so far, and the ADD
> only apply to fib 0. (Thank you for the route monitor advice!)
>
> got message of size 192 on Thu Oct 17 14:14:01 2013
> RTM_DELETE: Delete Route: len 192, pid: 94802, seq 1, errno 0, flags:<DONE>
> locks:  inits:
> sockaddrs: <DST,GATEWAY,NETMASK>
>  172.31.19.0 172.31.19.190 (255) ffff ffff ff
>
> got message of size 192 on Thu Oct 17 14:14:07 2013
> RTM_DELETE: Delete Route: len 192, pid: 94819, seq 1, errno 0, flags:<DONE>
> locks:  inits:
> sockaddrs: <DST,GATEWAY,NETMASK>
>  172.31.20.0 172.31.20.190 (255) ffff ffff ff
>
> got message of size 191 on Thu Oct 17 14:14:29 2013
> RTM_ADD: Add Route: len 191, pid: 99399, seq 1142, errno 0, flags:<DONE>
> locks:  inits:
> sockaddrs: <DST,GATEWAY,NETMASK>
>  172.31.19.0 172.31.19.190
> pmsg_addrs: truncated route message, only 7 bytes left
>
>
> got message of size 191 on Thu Oct 17 14:14:32 2013
> RTM_ADD: Add Route: len 191, pid: 99399, seq 1143, errno 0, flags:<DONE>
> locks:  inits:
> sockaddrs: <DST,GATEWAY,NETMASK>
>  172.31.20.0 172.31.20.190
> pmsg_addrs: truncated route message, only 7 bytes left
>
> From where routed take these addresses? When removing an fib entry,
> doesn't it means that routed will never announce/add our whatever with the
> non-existing entry?
>
> When came to changing, adding or removing an interface address, will it be
> good to restart routing and routed services?
>
> And by upgrading to 9.2-RELEASE, may the issue goes away!
>
> Best regards,
> Raimundo Santos
>



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