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Subject: Re: IOC connection problem
From: "Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
To: "Rivers, Mark L." <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>, "tech-talk at aps.anl.gov" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:15:12 +0000

Hi Mark,

 

Have you checked for any iptables rules that might be configured on your Linux systems? Have any of them ever been configured with the fixes documented here, which is an updated copy of a much older EPICS Wiki page? That might help explain the differences.

 

Another tool which we use for forwarding UDP packets (although not for CA searches in our case) is the UDP Broadcast Packet Relay described and linked here.

 

In the APS accelerator we use a series of CA name servers to forward searches between VLANs, but that might be overkill for your systems.

 

- Andrew

 

-- 

Complexity comes for free, Simplicity you have to work for.

 

 

On 6/19/24, 5:45 PM, "Tech-talk" <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

 

Folks,

 

I have a number of Linux machines that each run multiple IOCs.  The IOC and clients are all on a single public subnet, 164.54.160.*.  There is also a private subnet that some Linux machines and many devices are connected to, 10.54.160.*.

 

On the Linux machines I have set the following so that CA searches are only on the public network.  This prevents the warnings about multiple IOCs have the same PV.

EPICS_CA_AUTO_ADDR_LIST=NO

EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST=164.54.160.255

 

This is working fine for all Linux machines except one, called 13idd.  When I run multiple IOCs on 13idd I observe the following:

·         I can reach all IOCs from clients running locally on 13idd

·         From other machines I can reach the PVs on the first IOC started on 13idd.

·         From other machines when trying to reach PVs on other IOCs on 13idd I get the following error:

 

[epics@13bmd ~]$ /corvette/usr/local/epics/base/bin/linux-x86_64/caget 13IDD:m1

CAC: Unable to connect because "No route to host"

CA.Client.Exception...............................................

    Warning: "Virtual circuit disconnect"

    Context: "13idd.cars.aps.anl.gov:46799"

    Source File: ../cac.cpp line 1237

    Current Time: Wed Jun 19 2024 17:37:31.591554930

..................................................................

Channel connect timed out: '13IDD:m1' not found.

 

The message about “No route to host” happens immediately.

 

That machine is not configured differently from the others, as far as I have been able to tell.

 

This is the configuration of the 2 NICs on 13idd:

 

eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500

        inet 10.54.160.173  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 10.54.160.255

        inet6 fe80::42a6:b7ff:feb4:69ac  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>

        ether 40:a6:b7:b4:69:ac  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)

        RX packets 701064543  bytes 258403234658 (240.6 GiB)

        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0

        TX packets 82557039  bytes 7943801957 (7.3 GiB)

        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

 

eth1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500

        inet 164.54.160.193  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 164.54.160.255

        inet6 fe80::42a6:b7ff:feb4:69ad  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>

        ether 40:a6:b7:b4:69:ad  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)

        RX packets 28919766  bytes 3450612626 (3.2 GiB)

        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0

        TX packets 1894585  bytes 1421681130 (1.3 GiB)

        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

 

 

This is the output of epicsPrtEnvParams for the second IOC started on 13idd:

 

epics> epicsPrtEnvParams

EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST: 164.54.160.255

EPICS_CA_CONN_TMO: 30.0

EPICS_CA_AUTO_ADDR_LIST: NO

EPICS_CA_REPEATER_PORT: 5065

EPICS_CA_SERVER_PORT: 5064

EPICS_CA_MAX_ARRAY_BYTES: 16384

EPICS_CA_AUTO_ARRAY_BYTES: YES

EPICS_CA_MAX_SEARCH_PERIOD: 300.0

EPICS_CA_NAME_SERVERS is undefined

EPICS_CA_MCAST_TTL: 1

EPICS_CAS_INTF_ADDR_LIST is undefined

EPICS_CAS_IGNORE_ADDR_LIST is undefined

EPICS_CAS_AUTO_BEACON_ADDR_LIST is undefined

EPICS_CAS_BEACON_ADDR_LIST is undefined

EPICS_CAS_SERVER_PORT is undefined

EPICS_CA_BEACON_PERIOD: 15.0

EPICS_CAS_BEACON_PERIOD is undefined

EPICS_CAS_BEACON_PORT is undefined

EPICS_BUILD_COMPILER_CLASS: gcc

EPICS_BUILD_OS_CLASS: Linux

EPICS_BUILD_TARGET_ARCH: linux-x86_64

EPICS_TZ: CST6CDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2

EPICS_TS_NTP_INET is undefined

EPICS_IOC_IGNORE_SERVERS is undefined

EPICS_IOC_LOG_PORT: 7004

EPICS_IOC_LOG_INET is undefined

EPICS_IOC_LOG_FILE_LIMIT: 1000000

EPICS_IOC_LOG_FILE_NAME is undefined

EPICS_IOC_LOG_FILE_COMMAND is undefined

IOCSH_PS1: epics>

IOCSH_HISTSIZE: 50

IOCSH_HISTEDIT_DISABLE is undefined

 

Any idea what could cause this problem?

 

Thanks,

Mark

 


References:
IOC connection problem Mark Rivers via Tech-talk

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