[Python-apps-team] Bug#745587: base: Cloud AWS EC2 Image will not reply to packets received on additional network interface (ENI)

[Holger Levsen]

reassign 745587 cloud-init
# is that the correct packages for reporting bugs in AWS EC2 debian images?
# cheers!
thanks

On Mittwoch, 23. April 2014, Jeff Stiles wrote:
> Package: base
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I recently ran into an issue with the AWS EC2 debian image found in the AWS
> Marketplace (ami-1ebcd32e). When attaching a secondary Elastic Network
> Interface to the the instance during instance configuration and giving it
> an IP address, there is strange network behaviour. First, the second
> network interface is not configured authomatically and you must manually
> add eth1 to /etc/network/interfaces.
> 
> Upon restarting networking, the interface does acquire its IP address via
> DHCP from EC2. When sending traffic from eth1, you receive responses.
> However, when you initate traffic from another system in the same subnet
> as eth1, eth1 will not reply to the traffic (ICMP, SSH, etc).
> 
> The strangest part is that if you watch ifconfig for eth1, you will see the
> Rx incrementing from the traffic being sent to it, but with no
> corresponding Tx traffic. I can confirm that it is not a security group
> issue as both network interfaces are in the same security group and
> subnet.
> 
> I tried the newest Debian AMI and it has the same issue. The Ubuntu release
> in the AWS Marketplace also has the same issue. When spinning up an Amazon
> Linux AMI, there is no issue. The secondary interface is configured on
> first boot and there is not issue with traffic being handled properly by
> eth1.
> 
> Here is a related bug for Ubuntu, but it does not address the issue of
> additional iterfaces not properly handling traffic:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1153626
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.4
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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