Connection to instance dies on 'large' packets in Juno

asked 2015-07-09 09:26:39 -0500

JD Hallen
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updated 2015-07-09 09:28:36 -0500

Juno installed according to the manual instructions w/Neutron networking. Instances come up fine with no errors, gets all its DHCP-assigned IP addresses, Floating IP assigned -- all with no errors. I connect to any instance via SSH and as long as the output from the instance takes no more than one or two packets, the connection is fine. If I try to do something like 'ls -al /var/log', it hangs and the session times out. I can reconnect just fine, there are no errors in either the instance logs, nor in the Neutron logs that I can see. I've tried this on four different instances (CentOS 7, Ubuntu 14.04.2, Ubuntu 15.04, and F5 BIG-IP v11.6.0) and all behave the same way. I also tried it on the default Cirros image, but can't reproduce the problem there...not sure if the output is long enough to trigger the issue or not.

Not sure, but this might tie into my other current networking issue where I can't get any HTTPS connection to one of my instance. (its question # 69288 -- I would just post the link, but since I have no 'karma' on this site, I'm not allowed.)

Thanks for your help! JD

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answered 2015-07-14 16:13:38 -0500

JD Hallen
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Ok, figured out the issue and posting here in case someone else runs into this issue.

I always figured it had something to do with the networking, since I could always get connections, just not 'large' outputs.

My OpenStack Juno cloud has the "default" three nodes: Network, Compute, Controller. I went with the default GRE Tunnel between the Network and the Compute nodes. GRE Tunnels take out a little under 50 bytes of overhead away from the MTU. When I looked at my instances' interface settings, I noticed that it was still set to 1500! For some reason it was not adjusting the end-to-end MTU like I thought it would. Once I brought it down to 1450, everything worked like a champ. I thought linux would auto-adjust MTU, but for my cloud, it did not. All my instances have been adjusted and everything is working correctly now.

JD