netdev - Re: [ipv4:PATCH] Allow userspace to specify primary or secondary ip on interface

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Date:	Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:04:47 -0700
From:	Vincent Li <vincent.mc.li@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ipv4:PATCH] Allow userspace to specify primary or secondary ip
 on interface

Yes, I found I can use 'ip route replace' command to change the 'src'
address as workaround. Julian also responded in another thread that He
could come up with a patch to sort ip with scope, primary, secondary
preferences.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/27/482

Vincent

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 2:59 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Vincent Li <vincent.mc.li@...il.com>
> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:09:48 -0700
>
>> the reason for this patch is that we have a multi blade cluster platform
>> sharing 'floating management ip' and also that each blade has its own
>> management ip on the management interface, so whichever blade in the
>> cluster becomes primary blade, the 'floating mangaement ip' follows it,
>> and we want any of our traffic originated from the primary blade source from
>> the 'floating management ip' for consistency. but in this case, since the local
>> blade management ip is always the primary ip on the mangaement interface and
>> 'floating management ip' is always secondary, kernel always choose the primary
>> ip as source ip address. thus we would like to add the flexibility in kernel to
>> allow us to specify which ip to be primary or secondary.
>
> You have the flexibility already.
>
> You can specify a specific source address ot use in routes.
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