[Server-devel] Network route for activation time and netblocks for WLAN - 172.18.16.x reaching the XS

[Jerry Vonau]

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Hi Wad,
> 
> It's a good time to sort out our network changes. In our earlier
> discussion about activation you mentioned that you suspected that we
> had dropped or broken a bit of routing or network configuration for
> the XS. Can you give me a bit more background?
> 
> To recap
> 
>  - XOs looking for activation leases self-assign an address in 172.18.16.x
>  - there seems to be no routing between 172.18.16.x and 172.18.0.1
> 

     GATEWAY1=172.18.1.2
     ADDRESS1=172.18.16.0
     NETMASK1=255.255.248.0

Is routed out eth1 though 1.2, based on the .2, that should be for a 
second xs server no?

> On server_num 1, br2 ris the closest thing we have, and it is
> 172.18.14.1/23 . The lowest netblock in use by server_num 2 is
> 172.18.18.1/23 so we can add another bridge or fiddle with the netmask
> on server_num 1. With the new config scheme on xs-0.5 it is a whole
> lot easier too :-)
> 

You could use iptables here with a rule kind of like the squid rules, 
intercepting the traffic to 172.18.16.1

Jerry