netdev - Re: [IPV4] LVS: Allow to send ICMP unreachable responses when real-servers are removed

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Date:	Mon, 14 May 2007 16:32:02 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Janusz Krzysztofik <jkrzyszt@....icnet.pl>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, horms@...ge.net.au,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [IPV4] LVS: Allow to send ICMP unreachable responses when real-servers
 are removed

Janusz Krzysztofik wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
> 
>>> BTW, there doesn't even seem to be a spot where IPVS calls
>>> ip_route_output with the source address set. What exactly is this
>>> needed for?
>>
>>
>> I suppose he has a patch to make use of it, but was waiting
>> for this route.c change to go in first.
> 
> 
> If you mean me, the answer is no, I do not have any patch making use of
> the change in question. What I have is rather a complicated method of
> notifying udp clients on communication problems before they are
> redirected to a new real server. My method needs some IPVS related
> patches, but ICMP port unreachable messages are not generated inside
> IPVS code, they are just sent, with help of the patch in question, from
> udp_input() or netfilter REJECT.


Both use icmp_send(), which should always pick a local source, so I
don't understand why this change was needed. Could you describe
the specific case when the packet generated by icmp_send() does
not have a local source?

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