Fw: [Bug 212921] New: ECMP not working for local sockets

Fw: [Bug 212921] New: ECMP not working for local sockets

[Stephen Hemminger]

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Date: Sun, 02 May 2021 07:10:44 +0000
From: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
To: stephen@networkplumber.org
Subject: [Bug 212921] New: ECMP not working for local sockets


https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212921

            Bug ID: 212921
           Summary: ECMP not working for local sockets
           Product: Networking
           Version: 2.5
    Kernel Version: 5.8.0-50-generic
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: IPV4
          Assignee: stephen@networkplumber.org
          Reporter: nitin.i.joy@gmail.com
        Regression: No

When you're creating local TCP sockets in a Linux machine, the connections to
the same destination IP are not load-balanced across multiple interfaces when
ECMP path is set. Even when net.ipv4.fib_multipath_hash_policy is set to L4
hash, multiple interfaces are never used for same destination. 

I tried working around the issue by setting two route table entries with same
metric using `ip route append` command. In this case, the connections get
load-balanced across multiple interfaces for 5-10 seconds, after which all
future connections will choose one of the interfaces. There is no configuration
that can disable this behavior. I tried disabling tcp_metrics_nosave

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