Hi Salman, The external bridge, br-ex, does not require an IP address. When routers are connected to the bridge, it is true they procure an address from the external provider network. The address is applied to the qg interface within the router namespace.
When instances send traffic out, the router NATs the traffic using its respective IP (known as SNAT, or many to one.) When an instance has a floating IP, the router will NAT the traffic using the floating IP instead (known as one to one). The SNAT behavior can be disabled on a particular router if necessary, but it introduces routing issues that need to be solved upstream. James Sent from my iPhone On Sep 1, 2015, at 4:33 PM, Salman Toor <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, Can some one please explain it a bit or redirect me to the document. So on neutron node we need external interface br-ex (public IP) and than each tenant's router also occupies a real IP when we attach it to external net. I am wondering what is the path instances traffic take to go out? I mean will it go via the public IP attached to the router or its via br-ex? Regards.. Salman. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators
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