RE: iproute2 does not select 1st default route in table?

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Hello Joel,
There must be something else in play; we manage hundreds of other similar appliances and this is the only one that's exhibiting this behavior. ("similar" == "same hardware spec, same software spec, only the IPs are different" -- and yes, most of them have eth0 and eth1 sharing a subnet and gw, and eth1 is always the default route for packets not built with a specific source IP.)

Thanks, 
    Ole

Joel Gerber <Joel.Gerber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hello Ole;
>
>If you have multiple routes set with the same metric to the same destination, by default, the Linux kernel will choose the lowest numbered interface to use. This would be why eth0 is being hit every time. It has nothing to do with your ip rule definitions. If you wanted to prefer eth1, add a larger metric flag to the eth0 route, which will cause eth1 to be used instead. Then, only in the event that eth1 is link-down, will eth0 be used.
>
>You could also setup ECMP (Equal Cost Multi Path) which would allow you to load-balance traffic across both interfaces. To do this, add the equalize option to your 2 default routes when adding them. You might need to verify that you have multipath support baked into your kernel first.
>
>Joel Gerber
>Network Specialist
>Network Operations
>Eastlink
>E: Joel.Gerber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx T: 519.786.1241
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lartc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lartc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ole Craig
>Sent: April-16-14 7:34 AM
>To: lartc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: iproute2 does not select 1st default route in table?
>
>I am having the damnedest time with a dual-IP CentOS5-based appliance which seems to defy its iproute2 configuration, and I'm here hoping someone smarter than me (admittedly not a high bar) might be so kind as to tell me what I'm missing:
>        # ip route show table main
>        10.1.1.1 dev tun0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.1.1.7 
>        10.250.32.1 via 10.1.1.1 dev tun0 
>        10.250.10.0/24 via 10.1.1.1 dev tun0 
>        192.168.25.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.25.124 
>        192.168.25.0/24 dev eth1  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.25.100 
>        default via 192.168.25.1 dev eth1 
>        default via 192.168.25.1 dev eth0 
>        # ip route get 8.8.8.8 
>        8.8.8.8 via 192.168.25.1 dev eth0  src 192.168.25.124 
>            cache  mtu 1500 advmss 1460 hoplimit 64
>
>I have been playing with this box for several days, and no matter what I do (including reboots) it wants to route almost everything out eth0 instead of eth1, despite the ordering of default routes shown above which should see eth1 taking precedence. No iptables PREROUTING/nat/mangle/raw stuff, this is all straight iproute2.
>
>I determined that the 'main' table was the one at issue by inserting and removing an overriding rule at various priorities to see when 'ip get'
>would change behavior:
>        # ip rule show | tail
>        32758:	from all to 192.168.72.0/24 lookup defroutes 
>        32759:	from 192.168.72.0/24 lookup defroutes 
>        32760:	from 192.168.72.0/24 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32766:	from all lookup main 
>        32767:	from all lookup default 
>        # ip route add table custom to 8.8.8.0/24 via 192.168.72.1 dev eth1 src 192.168.72.100
>        # for i in $(seq 32767 -1 32764); do ip rule add prio $i to 8.8.8.0/24 lookup custom; ip route flush cache; sleep 2; echo -en "$i:\t"; ip route get 8.8.8.8| head -1; ip rule del prio $i to 8.8.8.0/24 lookup custom; ip route flush cache; sleep 2; done 
>        32767:	8.8.8.8 via 192.168.72.1 dev eth0  src 192.168.72.124 
>        32766:	8.8.8.8 via 192.168.72.1 dev eth0  src 192.168.72.124 
>        32765:	8.8.8.8 via 192.168.72.1 dev eth1  src 192.168.72.100 
>        32764:	8.8.8.8 via 192.168.72.1 dev eth1  src 192.168.72.100 
>        
>Both interfaces are up, and are *able* to reach 8.8.8.8 via the upstream
>gw:
>        # ping -c 1 -I eth0 8.8.8.8 
>        PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) from 192.168.72.124 eth0: 56(84) bytes of data.
>        64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=14.9 ms
>        
>        --- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
>        1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
>        rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 14.990/14.990/14.990/0.000 ms
>        # ping -c 1 -I eth1 8.8.8.8 
>        PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) from 192.168.72.100 eth1: 56(84) bytes of data.
>        64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=14.9 ms
>        
>        --- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
>        1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
>        rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 14.999/14.999/14.999/0.000 ms
>        
>Can anyone help my figure out why this box (alone out of many, many appliances with similar configurations at various customer sites) is determined to reach out through eth0?
>
>The full RPDB ruleset:
>        # ip rule show 
>        0:	from all lookup 255 
>        10:	from all lookup bootstrap 
>        32736:	from all to 128.119.40.1 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32737:	from all to 192.168.126.228 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32738:	from all to 192.168.76.232 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32739:	from all to 192.168.90.112 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32740:	from all to 192.168.61.112 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32741:	from all to 192.168.76.232 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32742:	from all to 192.168.61.112 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32743:	from all to 192.168.34.35 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32744:	from all to 192.168.61.112 lookup defroutes 
>        32745:	from all to 192.168.134.47 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32746:	from all to 192.168.127.68 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32747:	from all to 192.168.66.6 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32748:	from all to 192.168.126.228 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32749:	from all to 192.168.127.68 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32750:	from all to 192.168.134.41 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32751:	from all to 192.168.134.41 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32752:	from all to 192.168.76.232 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32753:	from all to 107.23.15.175 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32754:	from all to 216.87.69.94 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32755:	from 192.168.72.124 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32756:	from 192.168.72.100 lookup defroutes 
>        32757:	from 192.168.72.0/24 to 192.168.72.0/24 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32758:	from all to 192.168.72.0/24 lookup defroutes 
>        32759:	from 192.168.72.0/24 lookup defroutes 
>        32760:	from 192.168.72.0/24 lookup mgtroutes 
>        32766:	from all lookup main 
>        32767:	from all lookup default 
>        
>
>
>	Thank you for any clue you can spare,
>		Ole
>--
>Ole Craig <olc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
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