Update carp to set DSCP value CS7(Network Traffic) in the flowlabel field of
packets by default. Currently carp only sets TOS_LOWDELAY in IPv4 which was
deprecated in 1998. This also implements sysctl that can revert carp back to
it's old behavior if desired.
This will allow implementation of QOS on modern network devices to make sure
carp packets aren't dropped during interface contention.
Submitted by: Nick Wolff <darkfiberiru AT gmail.com>
Reviewed by: kp, mav (earlier version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14536
Currently when net.inet.carp.allow=0 CARP state remains as MASTER, which is
not very useful (if there are other masters -- it can lead to split brain,
if there are none -- it makes no sense). Having it as INIT makes it clear
that carp packets are disabled.
Submitted by: wg
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14477
from the slave (for example, when master is failing on disk IO and could not be
logged into or execute cronjob).
Commented out examples changed too to simplify future merging.
Idea by: kaa@zvuki.ru
Discussed with: glebius
MFC after: 1 week
to the current demotion factor instead of assigning it.
This allows external scripts to control demotion factor together
with kernel in a raceless manner.
7.x, 8.x and 9.x with pf(4) imports: pfsync(4) should suppress CARP
preemption, while it is running its bulk update.
However, reimplement the feature in more elegant manner, that is
partially inspired by newer OpenBSD:
- Rename term "suppression" to "demotion", to match with OpenBSD.
- Keep a global demotion factor, that can be raised by several
conditions, for now these are:
- interface goes down
- carp(4) has problems with ip_output() or ip6_output()
- pfsync performs bulk update
- Unlike in OpenBSD the demotion factor isn't a counter, but
is actual value added to advskew. The adjustment values for
particular error conditions are also configurable, and their
defaults are maximum advskew value, so a single failure bumps
demotion to maximum. This is for POLA compatibility, and should
satisfy most users.
- Demotion factor is a writable sysctl, so user can do
foot shooting, if he desires to.
from scratch, copying needed functionality from the old implemenation
on demand, with a thorough review of all code. The main change is that
interface layer has been removed from the CARP. Now redundant addresses
are configured exactly on the interfaces, they run on.
The CARP configuration itself is, as before, configured and read via
SIOCSVH/SIOCGVH ioctls. A new prefix created with SIOCAIFADDR or
SIOCAIFADDR_IN6 may now be configured to a particular virtual host id,
which makes the prefix redundant.
ifconfig(8) semantics has been changed too: now one doesn't need
to clone carpXX interface, he/she should directly configure a vhid
on a Ethernet interface.
To supply vhid data from the kernel to an application the getifaddrs(8)
function had been changed to pass ifam_data with each address. [1]
The new implementation definitely closes all PRs related to carp(4)
being an interface, and may close several others. It also allows
to run a single redundant IP per interface.
Big thanks to Bjoern Zeeb for his help with inet6 part of patch, for
idea on using ifam_data and for several rounds of reviewing!
PR: kern/117000, kern/126945, kern/126714, kern/120130, kern/117448
Reviewed by: bz
Submitted by: bz [1]
- Fix ifconfig commands. Replace 'mekmitasdigoat' with
'foobar'. While the former is more cool, the latter
makes example lines shorter.
Wording by: scottl
MFC after: 3 days
variable, because it might be not obvious how to configure carp(4)
devices in rc.conf.
2. Remove the sentence about the not implemented "carpdev" option (this
was not imported from OpenBSD according to our source code) to avoid
confusion.
Reviewed by: glebius@
MFC after: 3 days
