Re: RE: Vrrp Implementation issue over LinuxIp

"MUNEER CH" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.vrrp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 

Hi,
   I was trying to implement VRRP on linux IP. I have applied a kernel patch to alter the real mac address with the virtual mac address when a host requests for arp resolve for VRIP.
But the problem I encountered is, a data packet with this faked mac is getting dropped by kernel. Is there any way to make a kernel to accept a packet with virtual mac?

Thanks in advance
Regards
Muneer CH

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 Don Provan wrote :
>Hope the list doesn't mind this Linux specific conversation....
>
> >    We are planning to run VRRP over a Logical Interface
> > created in Linux
> > IP.(similar to eth0)
>
>I'm not sure what this means. I run VRRP over an ethernet
>interface. Is what you're doing significantly different?
>
> >    How we can I prevent that Linux Interface from sending arp
> > reply when it is in Backup State?
>
>Well, I think you're asking the wrong question. The real
>question is how to you make the interface send an ARP reply
>when it's supposed to. I always find it fascinating that
>there's really no good reason for the non-owner system to
>know the VR IP address at all except for ARP, so you're
>best off if you can avoid attaching it to an interface
>to begin with instead of attaching it and trying to
>suppress the results.
>
>I manipulate the ARP table directly, although in
>the 2.4 kernel I had to extend to kernel's ARP code to
>allow setting an ARP entry with a specific MAC address.
>(I don't know if 2.6 supports that out of the box.)
>
> >   Also,How can we to associate various virtual MacAddresses
> > to that Linux Interface?
>
>You just add them as if they were multicast MAC addresses
>you want your hardware to accept for delivery
>Remember, the kernel should always use the natural MAC
>address for all packets it sends. Only the VRRP packets
>that your VRRP app generates should have the VR MAC
>address as the source.
>
>-don
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