[OpenSIPS-Users] Load balancer probing from incorrect interface

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Bill W. wrote:
> Hello Bogdan,
>
> Okay I've been researching this more.  I am not a programmer, but it
> looks like get_out_socket and find_si in forward.c and socket_info.c are
> just comparing ip addresses, and when opensips is trying to probe an
> interface on the same machine, but is not bound to that IP, then source
> IP address selection fails.
>
> The challenge is that my instance of opensips is an HA service between
> two machines, so I cannot simply specify IPs to listen on in
> opensips.cfg because the source IPs I need to probe from will change
> depending on which machine opensips is running on.
>   
That is not possible - you cannot change at runtime the interfaces 
opensips works with - you cannot make it to listen on a newly added 
interface, you cannot make it stop using an already configured interface.

Each time you change the interfaces on the server, if you need to 
restart opensips.

> It looks like the solution to make this work with the existing
> get_out_socket code is to be able to specify interface aliases in the
> listen= directive.
>
> If I could do something like this:
> listen=udp:eth0:5090		# for probing eth0 IP alias
> listen=udp:eth0.0:5090		# for probing eth0:0 IP alias
> listen=udp:eth1.1:5090		# for probing eth1:1 IP alias
>
> Then opensips could pick the appropriate IP from the interface/alias on
> the machine where it is running.
>
> If that's too complex, then the brute-force method would be to allow this:
> listen=udp:*:5090		# for probing
>   

to be honest, never tried something like that - let me know if it works 
for you

Regards,
Bogdan
> I can't simply use the port= directive because I've got other services
> running on 5060.
>
> Thoughts? Thanks!
> Bill
>
>
>
> On 11/12/10 8:27 PM, Bill W wrote:
>   
>> Hi Bogdan,
>>
>> Thanks so much for explaining how interface selection works.
>>
>> Unfortunately the other interfaces all have daemons listening on port
>> 5060 and are in production and I can't simply reallocate IPs.
>>
>> So for the error messages below, is the problem that opensips is trying
>> to send out a packet on the automatically selected IP but since port
>> 5060 is occupied on that address, the socket is failing?
>>
>> If so, is it possible to specify a different source port so the packet
>> will go out?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bill
>>     
>
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