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authorAlex Gartrell <agartrell@fb.com>2015-09-15 09:23:05 +0300
committerSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>2015-09-17 05:50:02 +0300
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ipvs: add sysctl to ignore tunneled packets
This is a way to avoid nasty routing loops when multiple ipvs instances can forward to eachother. Signed-off-by: Alex Gartrell <agartrell@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
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@@ -157,6 +157,16 @@ expire_quiescent_template - BOOLEAN
persistence template if it is to be used to schedule a new
connection and the destination server is quiescent.
+ignore_tunneled - BOOLEAN
+ 0 - disabled (default)
+ not 0 - enabled
+
+ If set, ipvs will set the ipvs_property on all packets which are of
+ unrecognized protocols. This prevents us from routing tunneled
+ protocols like ipip, which is useful to prevent rescheduling
+ packets that have been tunneled to the ipvs host (i.e. to prevent
+ ipvs routing loops when ipvs is also acting as a real server).
+
nat_icmp_send - BOOLEAN
0 - disabled (default)
not 0 - enabled