ClientOriginIPAddress is 0.0.0.0 or ""

[Sunitha Harish]

On 06-04-2021 22:21, Ed Tanous wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 3:28 PM Jun-Lin Chen (陳俊霖)
> <Jun-Lin.Chen at quantatw.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> If continously send POST sessions Redfish request via Postman. I observe bmcweb debug logs, it will established connection at first request then not fetch user ip after the second request.
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>> That's why ClientOriginIPAddress in session after the second created is always 0.0.0.0 (not be assigned).
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>> In HTTP 1.1 It uses keep-alive Header default. so BMC does not fetch user IP when its connection is established.
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>> Is this behavior we expect?
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>> Best regards,
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>> Jun-Lin Chen
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> Sunitha,
> Considering this is code you wrote, would you mind replying to Jun-Lin
> about his experience and what the expected behavior is?  For what it's
> worth, I've seen it report 0.0.0.0 before on my system, I just haven't
> had a chance to chase it down and debug it.
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> -Ed

Hi Jun-Lin,

The ClientOriginIPAddress is expected to get populated when the session 
is established to the BMC ( the first request). This is a one time 
fetch, and it will be persisted for that session.

Regards,
Sunitha
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>> From: Jun-Lin Chen (陳俊霖)
>> Sent: Friday, March 5, 2021 4:05 PM
>> To: sunharis at in.ibm.com
>> Cc: openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org
>> Subject: ClientOriginIPAddress is 0.0.0.0 or ""
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>> Hi Sunitha,
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>> I found some problem when I create session.
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>> The property “ClientOriginIPAddress” is “” after POST https://${bmc}/login -d '{"username": <>,"password": <>}
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>> And it is 0.0.0.0 after POST https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/SessionService/Sessions -d '{"username": <>,"password": <>}'
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>> Both of them looked like something wrong. And I also look for source code in bmcweb repository.
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>> There only defined the default value: “” in generateUserSession() and not found fetch user ip in elsewhere.
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>> I think it is why ClientOriginIPAddress is strange.
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>> May I ask what step or something I lack in creation session so this property is abnormal?
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>> Best regards,
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>> Jun-Lin Chen
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