Hello, I have a question concerning the setup where I have macvlan interface on top of
bond device configured in balance-alb mode with 2 slave ports. The problem is that I cannot ping an IP of macvlan device on the server from the client machine. I do see that (as expected) the client never sees MAC address of macvlan device, but instead sees MAC address of one of the slave ports because ARP replies are intercepted by bonding driver and MACs are replaced. However, I don’t see ICMP requests from the client on macvlan device when I run tcpdump. I do see them on bond device and the slave assigned to the client though. I also tried active/passive, LACP and TLB bonding modes and they all work fine with my configuration. I only have a problem with ALB mode and macvlan. When I moved IP from macvlan device to the bond device, everything started working, so I guess it has something to do with virtual interfaces on top of the bond. I’d think that such configuration is not supported, but I found the following patch that was merged few years ago: https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg285148.html >From the description, the patch was intended to add support of exactly my configuration. I confirmed that my 4.8.6 kernel does have those changes. I’m not familiar with the code of bonding driver and didn’t dig into the source code to see why packets get dropped. I see that they are dropped (via dropwatch). I tried to get more details via enabling dyndebug and playing with ftrace, but with no luck yet. Before I dig into that, I wanted check with experts to know if that configuration is supported at all with the latest Linux kernel? Any help is very appreciated! Thanks, Dmitry
