A couple of questions:

1) What is your rack topology? Are all ceph nodes in the same rack
communicating with the same top of rack switch?

2) Why did you choose to run the ceph nodes on loopback interfaces as
opposed to the /24 for the "public" interface?

3) Are you planning on using RGW at all?

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Jan Marquardt <j...@artfiles.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am currently working on Ceph with an underlying Clos IP fabric and I
> am hitting some issues.
>
> The setup looks as follows: There are 3 Ceph nodes which are running
> OSDs and MONs. Each server has one /32 loopback ip, which it announces
> via BGP to its uplink switches. Besides the loopback ip each server has
> an management interface with a public (not to be confused with ceph's
> public network) ip address. For BGP switches and servers are running
> quagga/frr.
>
> Loopback ips:
>
> 10.10.100.1     # switch1
> 10.10.100.2     # switch2
> 10.10.100.21    # server1
> 10.10.100.22    # server2
> 10.10.100.23    # server3
>
> Ceph's public network is 10.10.100.0/24.
>
> Here comes the current main problem: There are two options for
> configuring the loopback address.
>
> 1.) Configure it on lo. In this case the routing works as inteded, but,
> as far as I found out, Ceph can not be run on lo interface.
>
> root@server1:~# ip route get 10.10.100.22
> 10.10.100.22 via 169.254.0.1 dev enp4s0f1  src 10.10.100.21
>     cache
>
> 2.) Configure it on dummy0. In this case Ceph is able to start, but
> quagga installs learned routes with wrong source addresses - the public
> management address from each host. This results in network problems,
> because Ceph uses the management ips to communicate to the other Ceph
> servers.
>
> root@server1:~# ip route get 10.10.100.22
> 10.10.100.22 via 169.254.0.1 dev enp4s0f1  src a.b.c.d
>     cache
>
> (where a.b.c.d is the machine's public ip address on its management
> interface)
>
> Has already someone done something similar?
>
> Please let me know, if you need any further information. Any help would
> really be appreciated.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Jan
>
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