[Openstack] Fwd: [Question #221283]: VM instance is not able to get IP address

Guilherme Russi luisguilherme.cr at gmail.com
Fri Feb 8 11:44:13 UTC 2013


I'm getting a similar problem in my deploy. If someone could help, I
appreciate it.

Regards.

Guilherme.


2013/2/8 Anil Vishnoi <vishnoianil at gmail.com>

> Hi All,
>
> I posted below question on launchpad -quantum, but i didn't get any
> response from the team, may be its not that active as openstack mailing
> list.
>
> I am facing an issue detailed in this question [
> https://answers.launchpad.net/quantum/+question/221283] and did some
> analysis and shared it on the same question. You can find my analysis in
> the below mail as well.
>
> I am looking for suggestion from the openstack networking expert on how to
> further debug this issue. My deployment is stuck because of this issue. I
> really appreciate your help.
>
> Thanks
> Anil
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Anil Vishnoi <question221283 at answers.launchpad.net>
> Date: Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [Question #221283]: VM instance is not able to get IP address
> To: vishnoianil at gmail.com
>
>
> Your question #221283 on quantum changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/quantum/+question/221283
>
> You gave more information on the question:
> Hi Team,
>
> I further debugged this issue, and figure out one workaround. I really
> don't want to say it a "workaround" but moreover its a hack.
>
> As i mentioned in the above description that because of the action=drop,
> DHCP packets were getting dropped and not reaching to the DHCP agent,
> and hence it was not able to respond with the DHCPOFFER response.
>
> First i resolve this error [Feb 07
> 17:32:40|00001|netdev_linux|WARN|/sys/class/net/tap9fdb5c15-26/carrier:
> open failed: ] with the following steps :
> 1. disable the network namespace for l3_agent and dhcp agent by modifying
> the use_namespace=false in the respective configuration file.
> 2. Delete the port (tap9fdb5c15-26) from the br-int bridge.
> [Quick instructions :
> root at management:~# ovs-vsctl del-port tap9fdb5c15-26
> root at management:~# ovs-vsctl add-port br-int tap9fdb5c15-26
> root at management:~# ovs-vsctl set port tap9fdb5c15-26 tag=1
> root at management:~# ovs-vsctl set Interface tap9fdb5c15-26 type=internal
> ]
> 3. Restart both the services and it will create tap devices outside the
> network name space.
>
> If network namespace is enabled, ifconfig will not show this tap device
> in its output, but if you fire command 'ip netns exec dhcpnsXXXX ip -d
> link' it will show you the device.
>
> In my setup i followed the above step, but even if you don't want to
> disable namespace, you can stop dhcp agent, delete the port from br-int
> and restart the service. It possibly will resolve this error ( it did
> worked in my setup).
>
> So in my setup, namespace is disabled. And following is the output of
> ovs-dpctl
>
> root at management:~# ovs-dpctl show
> system at br-eth1:
>         lookups: hit:151651 missed:37759 lost:0
>         flows: 3
>         port 0: br-eth1 (internal)
>         port 1: eth1
>         port 3: phy-br-eth1
> system at br-int:
>         lookups: hit:1183 missed:23283 lost:0
>         flows: 1
>         port 0: br-int (internal)
>         port 6: tap9fdb5c15-26 (internal)
>         port 7: int-br-eth1
> system at br-ex:
>         lookups: hit:96895 missed:67156 lost:0
>         flows: 16
>         port 0: br-ex (internal)
>         port 1: eth0
>
> DHCP request packet is broadcast packet and it takes following path to
> reach the br-int    port 1: eth1 (br-eth1) --> port 7: int-br-eth1(br-
> int) and this packet gets drop here because of the following rule
> installed on br-int bridge
>
>  cookie=0x0, duration=11422.615s, table=0, n_packets=16711,
> n_bytes=1178562, priority=2,in_port=7 actions=drop
>
> Ideally it should be forwarded to port 6: tap9fdb5c15-26 (internal) (br-
> int) and that way it can reach DHCP agent. So i modified above flow to
> following flow
>
> cookie=0x0, duration=3169.501s, table=0, n_packets=2562, n_bytes=228241,
> priority=2,in_port=7 actions=output:6
>
> and also installed following rule to route back the DHCPOFFER packet
>
> cookie=0x0, duration=4536.551s, table=0, n_packets=233, n_bytes=28896,
> priority=2,in_port=6 actions=output:7
>
> So after installing these two flow rules, DHCP agent got the request and
> responded with the DHCPOFFER response.
>
> root at management:~# tail -f /var/log/syslog
> Feb  8 03:26:16 management dnsmasq-dhcp[25811]:
> DHCPREQUEST(tap9fdb5c15-26) 192.168.0.3 fa:16:3e:93:74:73
> Feb  8 03:26:16 management dnsmasq-dhcp[25811]: DHCPACK(tap9fdb5c15-26)
> 192.168.0.3 fa:16:3e:93:74:73 192-168-0-3
>
> DHCP response packet will take following path  port 6: tap9fdb5c15-26
> (internal)(br-int) ---> port 7: int-br-eth1(br-int) ---> port 3: phy-br-
> eth1 (br-eth1) ---> port 1: eth1 (br-eth1)  and that way this packet
> will go out of controller node. But on br-eth1 bridge another rule was
> installed which was dropping the response
>
> cookie=0x0, duration=2669.22s, table=0, n_packets=173, n_bytes=18144,
> priority=2,in_port=3 actions=drop
>
> and i changed this flow to
>
> cookie=0x0, duration=2669.22s, table=0, n_packets=173, n_bytes=18144,
> priority=2,in_port=3 actions=output:1
>
> so now packet can escape from the controller machine. Now follows the
> story of compute node side.
>
> Following is ovs-dpctl output of my compute node :
>
> system at br-eth1:
>         lookups: hit:404442 missed:110048 lost:0
>         flows: 1
>         port 0: br-eth1 (internal)
>         port 1: eth1
>         port 3: phy-br-eth1
> system at br-int:
>         lookups: hit:1884 missed:71022 lost:0
>         flows: 0
>         port 0: br-int (internal)
>         port 3: int-br-eth1
>         port 4: qvo819abf08-ca
>         port 6: tap718d359b-d1   <<VM Connected to this tap device
>
> Response packet should take following path:  port 1: eth1(br-eth1) --->
> port 3: int-br-eth1 (br-int) --->port 6: tap718d359b-d1 (br-int),  but
> on br-int bridge following flow rule was installed which was dropping
> the response packet
>
> cookie=0x0, duration=1671.356s, table=0, n_packets=1068, n_bytes=99127,
> priority=2,in_port=3 actions=drop
>
> so i modified this flow to
>
> cookie=0x0, duration=1671.356s, table=0, n_packets=1068, n_bytes=99127,
> priority=2,in_port=3 actions=output:6
>
> and that way it was forwarding the packet to my VM, and i can now see that
> IP address 192.168.0.3 is now assigned to my machine. Ideally this is the
> job of quantum plug-in, but not sure why its dropping all the packets from
> both the sides.
> Above exercise establishes the fact that dhcp agent is working fine here,
> its the network routing which is causing the issue, and that too
> openvswitch plug-in as per my understanding.
>
> Seeking suggestion from the networking experts on the list, what
> possibly can cause this issue, do openvswitch plug-in has any dependency
> on linux bridge or brcompat module to work properly ? because on
> controller node neither bridge module nor brcompat module is loaded.
> Obviously this hack won't work for all other cases, so we need to
> resolve the issue at the plugin level. Please suggest!
>
> Thanks
> Anil
>
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> --Anil Kumar Vishnoi
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