Bug 754303

Summary: xend: No IP forwarding on Fedora 16
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: W. Michael Petullo <mike>
Component: xenAssignee: Michael Young <m.a.young>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: berrange, crobinso, jforbes, kraxel, m.a.young, virt-maint, xen-maint
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Description W. Michael Petullo 2011-11-16 02:27:04 UTC
Description of problem:
I am using Xen with routed interfaces instead of bridged (i.e., network-script network-route). In this case, the "network-route" script should enable kernel port forwarding. However, this is not the case---at least the first time xend runs. Xend runs, but /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward still contains "0".

But, if I restart xend by hand using "service xend restart", then kernel IP forwarding gets turned on.

At first I thought this may be due to SELinux (perhaps systemd starts xend in a different context than a root shell does). But this is not the case; I get the same behavior when I boot with SELinux in permissive mode.

At this point, I suspect it may be some type of ordering issue between when systemd initializes the kernel's sysctl settings and when it starts xend.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xen-4.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64
systemd-37-3.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure xend to use network-script network-route
2. Boot the system
3. Observe /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
  
Actual results:
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward contains 0

Expected results:
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward should contain 1 because the network-route script sets it to 1 when xend starts.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2012-05-15 19:37:53 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2013-02-11 21:38:07 UTC
Sorry for the lack of response on this bug, but since F16 is EOL real soon now, this won't be fixed for F16. If you can still reproduce this issue on F18, please reopen.