[Lustre-devel] lnet NAT friendliness

Oleg Drokin oleg.drokin at oracle.com
Wed May 5 08:26:58 PDT 2010


Hello!

On May 5, 2010, at 8:38 AM, Ken Hornstein wrote:

>> LNet requires destination address of message to be same with address of 
>> LNet NI (unless it's a router), I'm afraid it's not easy to make it  be 
>> tunable.
>> 
>> I would suggest to run lustre (lnet) router on the gateway (if your 
>> gateway is Linux...)
> Well, that's not really feasible, because a) many times we don't
> control the gateway (think sitting in Starbucks; and while some people
> would say that they don't want to use Lustre from Starbucks, I would
> say, "Why not?"; with Kerberos authentication, I think it would be
> perfectly reasonable), and b) even if you control the gateway, that
> doesn't really scale, because while that might work for one person,
> I don't see how you would do it for more than one person (how would
> you configure the routing back if more than one person are using the
> same NAT address range?).
> I admit I have no love for NAT and I would prefer it if we were living
> in a world where the end-to-end principle worked everywhere, but that
> battle was lost years ago.

I would think using VPN from outside into your Lustre-supplying LAN should
be enough to work around this problem somewhat easily with no code changes.

Also provides an encrypted secure channel as a bonus.

Bye,
    Oleg



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