[Openstack] [Quantum/Neutron] VM cannot get IP address from DHCP server

Brian Haley brian.haley at hp.com
Wed Jul 24 15:11:17 UTC 2013


On 07/24/2013 10:42 AM, David Kang wrote:
> 
>   If I remove the following REJECT rules, it works perfectly.
> -A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
> -A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
> 
>  With them, it looks like that the packets are dropped at the bridge before they can be forwarded.

So I'll keep asking - why can't you just remove them?  It gets you running and
if you're just kicking the tires it's a valid workaround.

> I ran the iptables commands recommended by RedHat.
> 
> When I ping 10.12.182.13 from a VM (192.168.3.3), 
> I cannot see any packets from qr-32411859-c0,
> but I can see packets are dropped at brqf56b3f53-d3.
> The outputs of tcpdump is shown below.
> 
> $ brctl show
> bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
> brq69f480ab-06          8000.001e675ba339       no              eth2.82
>                                                         tapd8bd73c9-3a
> brqf56b3f53-d3          8000.001e675ba338       no              eth1.2001
>                                                         tap32411859-c0
>                                                         tapfa6a1d01-16
> $ route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
> 192.168.3.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 ns-fa6a1d01-16
> 192.168.3.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 qr-32411859-c0

Overlapping IP ranges?  That could be a problem.

> 10.12.182.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth2.182
> 10.12.82.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 qg-d8bd73c9-3a
> 0.0.0.0         10.12.82.1      0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 qg-d8bd73c9-3a

Why is your default route going out this interface and not eth2.182?

> $  tcpdump -i qr-32411859-c0 -nn
>    // nothing special

What about ns-fa6a1d01-16?  That overlapping IP range looks suspicious.

> $ tcpdump -i brqf56b3f53-d3 -nn icmp
> tcpdump: WARNING: brqf56b3f53-d3: no IPv4 address assigned
> tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
> listening on brqf56b3f53-d3, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
> 13:48:46.892785 IP 192.168.3.3 > 10.12.182.13: ICMP echo request, id 46605, seq 1855, length 64
> 13:48:46.892825 IP 192.168.3.2 > 192.168.3.3: ICMP host 10.12.182.13 unreachable - admin prohibited, length 92

This is the reject iptables rule firing, so those other rules are not matching.
 You need to look at 'iptables -L -v -n -x' to see if their packet/byte counts
are increasing or not.  If not, start using things like 'ip route get $dest' to
figure out what interfaces the kernel is using for output, which will help you
fix those rules to be correct.

-Brian

> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 07/23/2013 11:41 PM, David Kang wrote:
>>>
>>>  A Redhat manual suggests the following rule to enable forwarding
>>>  packets
>>> among VMs and external network.
>>> https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_OpenStack/2/pdf/Release_Notes/Red_Hat_OpenStack-2-Release_Notes-en-US.pdf
>>>
>>> iptables -t filter -I FORWARD -i qr-+ -o qg-+ -j ACCEPT
>>> iptables -t filter -I FORWARD -i qg-+ -o qr-+ -j ACCEPT
>>> iptables -t filter -I FORWARD -i qr-+ -o qr-+ -j ACCEPT
>>>
>>>  But it doesn't work for me.
>>
>> Can you elaborate on what "it doesn't work" means?
>>
>> Do any of those rules show increased packet/byte counts, indicating
>> they've been
>> matched?
>>
>> Is IP forwarding enabled?
>>
>> Is there a mis-configuration in your bridge config? Use 'brctl show'
>> to see
>> where all the tap and other devices are attached.
>>
>> Deleting that one FORWARD rule causing all the trouble is going to be
>> a much
>> quicker solution.
>>
>> -Brian
>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> On 07/23/2013 12:22 PM, David Kang wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>   We are running OpenStack Folsom on CentOS 6.4.
>>>>> Quantum-linuxbridge-agent is used.
>>>>> By default, the Quantum node has the following entries in its
>>>>> /etc/sysconfig/iptables file.
>>>>>
>>>>> -A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
>>>>> -A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
>>>>>
>>>>>  With those two lines, VM cannot get IP address from the DHCP
>>>>>  server
>>>>>  running on the Quantum node.
>>>>> More specifically, the first line prevents a VM from getting IP
>>>>> address from DHCP server.
>>>>> The second line prevents a VM from talking to other VMs and
>>>>> external
>>>>> worlds.
>>>>> Is there a better way to make the Quantum network work well
>>>>> than just commenting them out?
>>>>
>>>> Since Quantum isn't adding them, and you want the system to act as
>>>> a
>>>> DHCP server
>>>> and gateway, I think you have two choices:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Delete them
>>>> 2. Craft rules to sit above them (using -I) to allow certain
>>>> packets
>>>>
>>>> #2 gets tricky as you'll need to account for DHCP, metadata, etc.
>>>> in
>>>> the INPUT
>>>> chain, and in the FORWARD chain you could maybe start by allowing
>>>> all
>>>> traffic
>>>> from your bridge. You would need to do some more work there.
>>>>
>>>> I believe any DHCP iptables rules will be on the compute hosts, and
>>>> will be put
>>>> in place for anti-spoofing. Since this is the network node you
>>>> won't
>>>> see them here.
>>>>
>>>> -Brian
>>>
> 





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