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* macvlan on top mlx4 fails
@ 2010-01-29 14:31 Daniel Lezcano
  2010-01-29 14:47 ` Patrick McHardy
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Lezcano @ 2010-01-29 14:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Patrick McHardy; +Cc: Linux Netdev List

Hi all,

I am trying to have a macvlan on top of an ethernet driver infiniband 
emulation communicating with the macvlan on anoher host with the same 
configuration. But I am not able to ping them through the ip address 
assigned to each macvlan.

On the host1 (s1):

s1:~> ifconfig
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1A:64:44:B5:FB
           inet addr:9.114.244.95  Bcast:9.114.247.255  Mask:255.255.248.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::21a:64ff:fe44:b5fb/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:5355123 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:2193023 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:791518554 (754.8 Mb)  TX bytes:18432872954 (17578.9 Mb)

ib0       Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
80-00-00-48-FE-80-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
           inet addr:192.168.0.95  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::202:c903:1:1b1d/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:2044  Metric:1
           RX packets:306 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:272 errors:0 dropped:5 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:256
           RX bytes:27870 (27.2 Kb)  TX bytes:27150 (26.5 Kb)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:170697 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:170697 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:61678890 (58.8 Mb)  TX bytes:61678890 (58.8 Mb)

mc1       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 86:D7:44:D4:DC:C0
           inet addr:1.2.3.5  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::84d7:44ff:fed4:dcc0/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:11903 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:851808 (831.8 Kb)  TX bytes:468 (468.0 b)


s2:~ # ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
     link/ether 00:1a:64:44:b5:22 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc 
pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
     link/ether 00:1a:64:44:b5:23 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: ib0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 2044 qdisc pfifo_fast 
state UP qlen 256
     link/infiniband 
80:00:00:48:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:41:00:02:c9:03:00:01:1e:bd brd 
00:ff:ff:ff:ff:12:40:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: ib1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 2044 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 256
     link/infiniband 
80:00:00:49:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:02:c9:03:00:01:1e:be brd 
00:ff:ff:ff:ff:12:40:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:ff:ff:ff:ff
49: mc1@eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue 
state UNKNOWN
     link/ether be:7e:6e:dd:58:c0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff


On the host2 (s2):

s2:~ # ifconfig
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1A:64:44:B5:23
           inet addr:9.114.244.96  Bcast:9.114.247.255  Mask:255.255.248.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::21a:64ff:fe44:b523/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:967848 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:100977 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:1535677477 (1464.5 Mb)  TX bytes:61077758 (58.2 Mb)

ib0       Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
80-00-00-48-FE-80-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
           inet addr:192.168.0.96  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::202:c903:1:1ebd/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:2044  Metric:1
           RX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:5 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:256
           RX bytes:7305 (7.1 Kb)  TX bytes:4145 (4.0 Kb)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:580 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:580 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:43888 (42.8 Kb)  TX bytes:43888 (42.8 Kb)

mc1       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr BE:7E:6E:DD:58:C0
           inet addr:1.2.3.4  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::bc7e:6eff:fedd:58c0/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:12411 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:886732 (865.9 Kb)  TX bytes:594 (594.0 b)

s1:~ # ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 
1000
     link/ether 00:1a:64:44:b5:fa brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc 
pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
     link/ether 00:1a:64:44:b5:fb brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: ib0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 2044 qdisc pfifo_fast 
state UP qlen 256
     link/infiniband 
80:00:00:48:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:41:00:02:c9:03:00:01:1b:1d brd 
00:ff:ff:ff:ff:12:40:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: ib1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 2044 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 256
     link/infiniband 
80:00:00:49:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:02:c9:03:00:01:1b:1e brd 
00:ff:ff:ff:ff:12:40:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:ff:ff:ff:ff
85: mc1@eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue 
state UNKNOWN
     link/ether 86:d7:44:d4:dc:c0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff



The ping result:

s2:~ # ping 1.2.3.5
PING 1.2.3.5 (1.2.3.5) 56(84) bytes of data.
 From 1.2.3.4: icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 1.2.3.4 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 1.2.3.4 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 1.2.3.4 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
^C
--- 1.2.3.5 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4010ms
, pipe 3

The arp cache:

Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask 
    Iface
1.2.3.5                          (incomplete) 
    mc1


When doing a tcpdump on s2 host, I have arp who-as request:


09:14:20.764389 arp who-has 1.2.3.5 tell 1.2.3.4
09:14:20.764394 arp who-has 1.2.3.5 tell 1.2.3.4
09:14:20.764427 arp who-has 1.2.3.5 tell 1.2.3.4


But doing the same tcpdump on the s1 host I don't see there arp request.

The output of lscpi:

s2:~ # lspci
0000:00:01.0 RAID bus controller: IBM Obsidian chipset SCSI controller 
(rev 02)
0001:00:01.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
0001:00:01.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
0001:00:01.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
0002:00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev 02)
0003:01:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25418 [ConnectX IB DDR, 
PCIe 2.0 2.5GT/s] (rev a0)


I am a newbie on infiniband so I was wondering if I did something wrong 
or if this is unsupported.

Thanks in advance.
   -- Daniel

ps : I was not able to find the email of the mlx4 driver maintainer.

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* Re: macvlan on top mlx4 fails
  2010-01-29 14:31 macvlan on top mlx4 fails Daniel Lezcano
@ 2010-01-29 14:47 ` Patrick McHardy
  2010-01-29 14:55   ` Daniel Lezcano
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Patrick McHardy @ 2010-01-29 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Daniel Lezcano; +Cc: Linux Netdev List

Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to have a macvlan on top of an ethernet driver infiniband
> emulation communicating with the macvlan on anoher host with the same
> configuration. But I am not able to ping them through the ip address
> assigned to each macvlan.
> 
> On the host1 (s1):
> 
> ...
> s2:~ # ping 1.2.3.5
> PING 1.2.3.5 (1.2.3.5) 56(84) bytes of data.
> From 1.2.3.4: icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
> From 1.2.3.4 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
> From 1.2.3.4 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
> From 1.2.3.4 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
> ^C
> --- 1.2.3.5 ping statistics ---
> 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4010ms
> , pipe 3
> 
> The arp cache:
> 
> Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask    Iface
> 1.2.3.5                          (incomplete)    mc1
> 
> 
> When doing a tcpdump on s2 host, I have arp who-as request:
> 
> 
> 09:14:20.764389 arp who-has 1.2.3.5 tell 1.2.3.4
> 09:14:20.764394 arp who-has 1.2.3.5 tell 1.2.3.4
> 09:14:20.764427 arp who-has 1.2.3.5 tell 1.2.3.4
> 
> 
> But doing the same tcpdump on the s1 host I don't see there arp request.
> 
> The output of lscpi:
> 
> s2:~ # lspci
> 0000:00:01.0 RAID bus controller: IBM Obsidian chipset SCSI controller
> (rev 02)
> 0001:00:01.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
> 0001:00:01.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
> 0001:00:01.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
> 0002:00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev
> 02)
> 0003:01:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25418 [ConnectX IB DDR,
> PCIe 2.0 2.5GT/s] (rev a0)
> 
> 
> I am a newbie on infiniband so I was wondering if I did something wrong
> or if this is unsupported.

Well, I don't know much about infiniband myself. On which device
are you running tcpdump? In case its the eth-device, does running
tcpdump directly on top of the ib-devices make any difference?
Perhaps its not properly propagating the promiscous mode flag or
the secondary unicast addresses.

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* Re: macvlan on top mlx4 fails
  2010-01-29 14:47 ` Patrick McHardy
@ 2010-01-29 14:55   ` Daniel Lezcano
  2010-01-29 15:03     ` Patrick McHardy
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Lezcano @ 2010-01-29 14:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Patrick McHardy; +Cc: Linux Netdev List

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am trying to have a macvlan on top of an ethernet driver infiniband
>> emulation communicating with the macvlan on anoher host with the same
>> configuration. But I am not able to ping them through the ip address
>> assigned to each macvlan.
>>
>> On the host1 (s1):
>>
>> ...
>> s2:~ # ping 1.2.3.5
>> PING 1.2.3.5 (1.2.3.5) 56(84) bytes of data.
>> From 1.2.3.4: icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>> From 1.2.3.4 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>> From 1.2.3.4 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
>> From 1.2.3.4 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
>> ^C
>> --- 1.2.3.5 ping statistics ---
>> 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4010ms
>> , pipe 3
>>
>> The arp cache:
>>
>> Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask    Iface
>> 1.2.3.5                          (incomplete)    mc1
>>
>>
>> When doing a tcpdump on s2 host, I have arp who-as request:
>>
>>
>> 09:14:20.764389 arp who-has 1.2.3.5 tell 1.2.3.4
>> 09:14:20.764394 arp who-has 1.2.3.5 tell 1.2.3.4
>> 09:14:20.764427 arp who-has 1.2.3.5 tell 1.2.3.4
>>
>>
>> But doing the same tcpdump on the s1 host I don't see there arp request.
>>
>> The output of lscpi:
>>
>> s2:~ # lspci
>> 0000:00:01.0 RAID bus controller: IBM Obsidian chipset SCSI controller
>> (rev 02)
>> 0001:00:01.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
>> 0001:00:01.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
>> 0001:00:01.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
>> 0002:00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev
>> 02)
>> 0003:01:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25418 [ConnectX IB DDR,
>> PCIe 2.0 2.5GT/s] (rev a0)
>>
>>
>> I am a newbie on infiniband so I was wondering if I did something wrong
>> or if this is unsupported.
> 
> Well, I don't know much about infiniband myself. On which device
> are you running tcpdump? 

I did:

tcpdump -i any arp dst or src 1.2.3.5

In case its the eth-device, does running
> tcpdump directly on top of the ib-devices make any difference?

Yes, right. The arp request are seen on eth1 but not on the ib.

> Perhaps its not properly propagating the promiscous mode flag or
> the secondary unicast addresses.

Is it possible to check that ?

Thanks.

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* Re: macvlan on top mlx4 fails
  2010-01-29 14:55   ` Daniel Lezcano
@ 2010-01-29 15:03     ` Patrick McHardy
  2010-01-31 23:33       ` Daniel Lezcano
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Patrick McHardy @ 2010-01-29 15:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Daniel Lezcano; +Cc: Linux Netdev List

Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am trying to have a macvlan on top of an ethernet driver infiniband
>>> emulation communicating with the macvlan on anoher host with the same
>>> configuration. But I am not able to ping them through the ip address
>>> assigned to each macvlan.
>>>
>>> On the host1 (s1):
>>>
>>> ...
>>> s2:~ # ping 1.2.3.5
>>> PING 1.2.3.5 (1.2.3.5) 56(84) bytes of data.
>>> From 1.2.3.4: icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>>> From 1.2.3.4 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>>> From 1.2.3.4 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
>>> From 1.2.3.4 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
>>> ^C
>>> --- 1.2.3.5 ping statistics ---
>>> 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss, time
>>> 4010ms
>>> , pipe 3
>>>
>>> The arp cache:
>>>
>>> Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask    Iface
>>> 1.2.3.5                          (incomplete)    mc1
>>>
>>>
>>> When doing a tcpdump on s2 host, I have arp who-as request:
>>>
>>>
>>> 09:14:20.764389 arp who-has 1.2.3.5 tell 1.2.3.4
>>> 09:14:20.764394 arp who-has 1.2.3.5 tell 1.2.3.4
>>> 09:14:20.764427 arp who-has 1.2.3.5 tell 1.2.3.4
>>>
>>>
>>> But doing the same tcpdump on the s1 host I don't see there arp request.
>>>
>>> The output of lscpi:
>>>
>>> s2:~ # lspci
>>> 0000:00:01.0 RAID bus controller: IBM Obsidian chipset SCSI controller
>>> (rev 02)
>>> 0001:00:01.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
>>> 0001:00:01.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
>>> 0001:00:01.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
>>> 0002:00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev
>>> 02)
>>> 0003:01:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25418 [ConnectX IB DDR,
>>> PCIe 2.0 2.5GT/s] (rev a0)
>>>
>>>
>>> I am a newbie on infiniband so I was wondering if I did something wrong
>>> or if this is unsupported.
>>
>> Well, I don't know much about infiniband myself. On which device
>> are you running tcpdump? 
> 
> I did:
> 
> tcpdump -i any arp dst or src 1.2.3.5
> 
> In case its the eth-device, does running
>> tcpdump directly on top of the ib-devices make any difference?
> 
> Yes, right. The arp request are seen on eth1 but not on the ib.

That would be fine unless I'm misunderstanding your setup - with
macvlan bound to eth1 they should be visible on both eth1 any the
macvlan device.

I'm guessing that you have a filter misconfiguration. You need
arp_ignore=1 and possibly rp_filter=0.

>> Perhaps its not properly propagating the promiscous mode flag or
>> the secondary unicast addresses.
> 
> Is it possible to check that ?

If the devices are not already in promiscous mode, you should see
"device XXX entered promiscuous mode" for both devices in the
ring buffer.

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* Re: macvlan on top mlx4 fails
  2010-01-29 15:03     ` Patrick McHardy
@ 2010-01-31 23:33       ` Daniel Lezcano
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Lezcano @ 2010-01-31 23:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Patrick McHardy; +Cc: Linux Netdev List

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>> Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to have a macvlan on top of an ethernet driver infiniband
>>>> emulation communicating with the macvlan on anoher host with the same
>>>> configuration. But I am not able to ping them through the ip address
>>>> assigned to each macvlan.
>>>>
>>>> On the host1 (s1):
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> s2:~ # ping 1.2.3.5
>>>> PING 1.2.3.5 (1.2.3.5) 56(84) bytes of data.
>>>> From 1.2.3.4: icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>>>> From 1.2.3.4 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>>>> From 1.2.3.4 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
>>>> From 1.2.3.4 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
>>>> ^C
>>>> --- 1.2.3.5 ping statistics ---
>>>> 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss, time
>>>> 4010ms
>>>> , pipe 3
>>>>
>>>> The arp cache:
>>>>
>>>> Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask    Iface
>>>> 1.2.3.5                          (incomplete)    mc1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When doing a tcpdump on s2 host, I have arp who-as request:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 09:14:20.764389 arp who-has 1.2.3.5 tell 1.2.3.4
>>>> 09:14:20.764394 arp who-has 1.2.3.5 tell 1.2.3.4
>>>> 09:14:20.764427 arp who-has 1.2.3.5 tell 1.2.3.4
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> But doing the same tcpdump on the s1 host I don't see there arp request.
>>>>
>>>> The output of lscpi:
>>>>
>>>> s2:~ # lspci
>>>> 0000:00:01.0 RAID bus controller: IBM Obsidian chipset SCSI controller
>>>> (rev 02)
>>>> 0001:00:01.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
>>>> 0001:00:01.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
>>>> 0001:00:01.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
>>>> 0002:00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev
>>>> 02)
>>>> 0003:01:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25418 [ConnectX IB DDR,
>>>> PCIe 2.0 2.5GT/s] (rev a0)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am a newbie on infiniband so I was wondering if I did something wrong
>>>> or if this is unsupported.
>>> Well, I don't know much about infiniband myself. On which device
>>> are you running tcpdump? 
>> I did:
>>
>> tcpdump -i any arp dst or src 1.2.3.5
>>
>> In case its the eth-device, does running
>>> tcpdump directly on top of the ib-devices make any difference?
>> Yes, right. The arp request are seen on eth1 but not on the ib.
> 
> That would be fine unless I'm misunderstanding your setup - with
> macvlan bound to eth1 they should be visible on both eth1 any the
> macvlan device.
> 
> I'm guessing that you have a filter misconfiguration. You need
> arp_ignore=1 and possibly rp_filter=0.
> 
>>> Perhaps its not properly propagating the promiscous mode flag or
>>> the secondary unicast addresses.
>> Is it possible to check that ?
> 
> If the devices are not already in promiscous mode, you should see
> "device XXX entered promiscuous mode" for both devices in the
> ring buffer.

Hi patrick,

finally I was puzzled with the nic on the machines, they are not 
inifinband emulated ethernet but powerpc lpar virtual ethernet card.

It seems they drop the packets when the mac address is not the one 
assigned to the virtual ethernet :(

I am afraid macvlan neither veth or any virtual interface with its own 
mac address will be able to communicate between lpars. In other words, 
the lpar seems to be incompatible with the container technology today.

Thanks for your help.
   -- Daniel

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