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#1 2014-01-27 17:25:51

cris9288
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Registered: 2013-01-07
Posts: 348

[SOLVED]Can't ping wired devices on failover.

I have configured netctl to use bonding as described in the wiki. Everything works fine, with the exception of one thing: When I unplug my ethernet cable, I am no longer able to reach any device on the LAN that has a wired connection. All wireless devices remain pingable and I am able to use the internet, but I cannot ping any devices that are connected directly to the router through the ethernet interfaces.

What I've tried:

After unplugging ethernet cable restart wpa_supplicant service and restarting failover profile

reloading the bonding driver

deleting and then readding the ARP table entry for the device I'm trying to reach
adding a static route for the device I'm trying to reach
using a different kernel (linux lts)
using a different driver for my NIC

None of the above work.

Ive run wireshark simultaneously on the other device (I've used my raspberry pi and a windows laptop as targets) and my laptop and here is what I've been able to observe. When my laptop is connected to the ethernet, I see the ping requests and replies on both devices. As soon as I unplug the cable from my laptop, the target device continues to receive and send ping requests and replies, but after a few seconds this stops. At this point, a ping from my laptop is hanging waiting for a reply. In wireshark, I can see that my laptop is sending out an ARP request:

"who has $RPI_ADDRESS? Tell $LAPTOP_ADDRESS"

This requests reach my Pi and it promptly sends out an ARP response.

"$RPI_HW_ADDR has $RPI_ADDRESS. Tell $LAPTOP_ADDRESS"

However, these replies never make it back to my laptop. In Wireshark I set a filter to show traffic going to and from my default gateway, so it appears that these replies don't even make it back to my router, but I could be wrong about that since I believe the filter only applies to traffic between my laptop and my gateway.

As the title states, could this be a driver bug or a router problem?

Here are some configs:

wpa_supplicant-wlan0.conf

network={
	ssid="myessid"
	#psk="mypassphrase"
	psk=obfusticated
}
bonding.conf

options bonding mode=active-backup
options bonding miimon=100
options bonding primary=eth0
options bonding max_bonds=0
cat /etc/netctl/failover 

Description='A wired connection with failover to wireless'
Interface='bond0'
Connection=bond
BindsToInterfaces=('eth0' 'wlan0')
IP=dhcp
DHCPClient=dhclient
cat /etc/netctl/ethernet-dhcp 
Description='A basic dhcp ethernet connection'
Interface=eth0
Connection=ethernet
IP='no'
#ExecUpPost='systemctl stop netctl-auto@wlan0.service || true'
#ExecDownPre='systemctl start netctl-auto@wlan0.service || true'
## for DHCPv6
#IP6=dhcp
## for IPv6 autoconfiguration
#IP6=stateless
cat /etc/netctl/wlan0-wifi 
Description='Automatically generated profile by wifi-menu'
Interface=wlan0
Connection=wireless
Security=wpa
ESSID=myessid
IP='no'
dmesg output on disconnect

[  327.476624] bonding: bond0: link status definitely up for interface eth0, 1000 Mbps full duplex.
[  327.476632] bonding: bond0: making interface eth0 the new active one.
[  460.131441] bonding: bond0: link status definitely down for interface eth0, disabling it
[  460.131450] bonding: bond0: making interface wlan0 the new active one.
[  479.253233] bonding: bond0: link status definitely up for interface eth0, 1000 Mbps full duplex.
[  479.253240] bonding: bond0: making interface eth0 the new active one.

I can temporarily enable telnet on my router if anyone would like to some output from that. I appreciate any help. Thank you .

Last edited by cris9288 (2014-01-29 20:58:51)

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#2 2014-01-29 17:55:58

cris9288
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Registered: 2013-01-07
Posts: 348

Re: [SOLVED]Can't ping wired devices on failover.

Nobody answered but I solved my problem...I had an old netgear router that I found. Setting my modem/router in bridged mode and using my netgear as the actual router solved the issue. I can now reach all local devices regardless of connection type on failover. Boo Actiontec router.

Last edited by cris9288 (2014-01-29 20:57:19)

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