We've got a bunch of business logic above openstack. It's allocating VLANs on-fly for external networks and connect pieces outside neutron (configuring hardware router, etc).

Anyway, after some research we've decided to completely ditch idea of 'tenant networks'. All networks are external and handled by our software with administrative rights.

All networks for tenant are created during tenant bootstrap, including local networks which are now looking funny 'external local network without gateway'. By nailing every moving part in 'neutron net-create' we've got stable behaviour and kept allocation database inside our software. That kills a huge part of openstack idea, but at least it works straightforward and nice.

I really like to see all that been implemented in vendor plugins for neutron, but average code and documentation quality for them are below any usable level, so we implements hw configuration by ourselves.

On 05/08/2015 09:15 AM, Kevin Benton wrote:
If one set of VLANs is for external networks which are created by admins, why even specify network_vlan_ranges for that set?

For example, even if network_vlan_ranges is 'local:1000:4000', you can still successfully run the following as an admin: neutron net-create --provider:network_type=vlan --provider:physical_network=local --provider:segmentation_id=40 myextnet --router:external

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:32 AM, George Shuklin <george.shuk...@gmail.com <mailto:george.shuk...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    Hello everyone.

    Got a problem: we want to use same physical interface for external
    networks and virtual (tenant) networks. All inside vlans with
    different ranges.

    My expected config was:

    [ml2]
    type_drivers = vlan
    tenant_network_types = vlan
    [ml2_type_vlan]
    network_vlan_ranges = external:1:100,local:1000:4000
    [ovs]
    bridge_mappings = external:br-ex,local:br-ex

    But it does not work:

    ERROR neutron.plugins.openvswitch.agent.ovs_neutron_agent [-]
    Parsing bridge_mappings failed: Value br-ex in mapping: 'gp:br-ex'
    not unique. Agent terminated!

    I understand that I can cheat and manually configure bridge pile
    (br-ex and br-loc both plugged to br-real, which linked to
    physical interface), but it looks very fragile.

    Is any nicer way to do this? And why ml2 (ovs plugin?) does not
    allow to use mapping from many networks to one bridge?

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