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Date:      Wed, 8 Jun 2016 08:37:44 -0600
From:      Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
To:        "Eugene M. Zheganin" <emz@norma.perm.ru>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable ML <stable@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cannot delete on-interface route in FIB
Message-ID:  <CAOtMX2gLJBk3jdTqMOuhpi9Aw8GyJbHxi=uZ=DGKiOpmi4e0qQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5757F6CF.7070807@norma.perm.ru>
References:  <5757F6CF.7070807@norma.perm.ru>

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On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Eugene M. Zheganin <emz@norma.perm.ru> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> (first part of the message is describing why I need this, so impatient
> people can proceed to th 'setfib 2 route delete' part directly).
>
> I have a FreeBSD router connected to the ISP network, which is organized
> according to the rfc3069 (you know, when all of the clients think they
> have /24. but in reality they have /32 and a central router is
> proxy-arping requests). This router is handling two organizations LANs,
> and it has two Internet links connected, I'm using FIB 0 for the first
> organization, and FIB 2 for second. To be specific:
>
> 46.146.220.88/24 - main router IP, gateway is 46.146.220.254, interface
> vlan2
> 46.146.206.94/24 - second router IP, gateway is 46.146.206.254,
> interface vlan4
>
> Both 46.146.220.24 and .206.254 are the same ISP router.
>
> I also have the application server on IP 46.146.220.92, which FIB 0
> thinks is on-interface. Now the tricky part:
>
> When FIB 0 need to communicate with 46.146.220.92, it does so from it's
> address 46.146.220.88, since it thinks it's directly reachable. But when
> requesting MAC from 46.146.220.88 it receives the ISP router MAC, so it
> does so via ISP router. This part is fine.
>
> Now the troubled part:
>
> When FIB 2 needs to communicate with 46.146.220.92, it thinks.... yeah,
> that it's directly reachable from vlan2. When it initiates the session,
> it takes 46.146.220.88 as source interface and everything is fine
> (again). But when the client in the LAN initiates the exchange, the
> packet IP src is translated to the 46.146.206.94 address, and the route
> still points to the vlan2 interface. So, network stack sends the packet
> with IP src of 46.146.206.94 via vlan2, and the ISP router seems to
> dislike such packets. Two workarounds come to mind:
>
> - translating the packets from internal LAN destined to specific address
> of 46.146.220.92 to appropriate address of vlan2
> - deleting the on-interface route from FIB 2.
>
> I have chosen the second (more obvious to me) but then I discovered that
> I cannot do this:
>
>  # setfib 2 route delete 46.146.220.0/24
> route: writing to routing socket: Address already in use
> delete net 46.146.220.0 fib 2: gateway uses the same route
>
> why ?
>
> Finally I added the host route to 46.146.220.92 in FIB 2 pointing to the
> appropriate (46.146.206.254) gateway and got my connectivity, but I
> still don't understand why the deletion of on-interface route is
> impossible. After all, it's the second FIB, and I don;t understand whet
> gateway the error is talking about. I tried this without having the
> default gateway in FIB 2, same result.
>
> Thanks.
> Eugene.

What is the value of "sysctl net.add_addr_allfibs"?  In your case, it
sounds like you want to set it to 0.



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