ClientOriginIPAddress is 0.0.0.0 or ""

[Ed Tanous]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 10:51 PM Sunitha Harish
<sunithaharish04 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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,
> >>
> >> 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,
> >>
> >> Jun-Lin Chen
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > -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.

Can you think of a reason it would report all zeros?  Can you verify
this functionality works properly on your system?
Part of me wonders if this has something to do with http keepalive.

>
> Regards,
> Sunitha
> >>
> >>
> >> 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": <>}'
> >>
> >> Both of them looked like something wrong. And I also look for source code in bmcweb repository.
> >>
> >> 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,
> >>
> >> Jun-Lin Chen
> >>
> >>