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+
+## Environment:
+
+### Weave:
+```
+$ weave report
+```
+
+### Docker:
+```
+$ docker version
+$ docker-runc --version
+```
+
+### Kubernetes:
+```
+$ kubectl version
+```
+
+### Logs:
+<!-- Anything interesting or unusual output by the below, potentially relevant, commands? -->
+<!-- (If output is long, please consider a Gist.) -->
+```
+$ docker logs weave
+$ journalctl -u docker.service --no-pager
+$ kubectl logs -n kube-system <weave-net-pod> weave
+$ kubectl get events
+```
+
+### OS:
+```
+$ uname -a
+$ cat /etc/*release*
+```
+
+### Network:
+```
+$ ip route
+$ ip -4 -o addr
+```
+<!-- Anything interesting or unusual output by iptables-save? -->
+<!-- (If output is long, please consider a Gist.) -->
+
+## What you expected to happen?
+
+## What happened?
+<!-- Error message, actual behaviour, etc. -->
+
+## How to reproduce it?
+<!-- Specific steps, as minimally and precisely as possible. -->
+
+## Anything else we need to know?
+<!-- Cloud provider? Hardware? How did you configure your cluster? Kubernetes YAML, KOPS, etc. -->