[Netstack] FW: [openstack-dev] [Quantum] Proposing Mark McClain & Nachi Ueno for core dev

2012-08-15 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
-Original Message- From: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 1:59 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List Subject: [openstack-dev] [Quantum] Proposing Mark McClain & Nachi Ueno for core dev Hi All, I feel Mark McClain (markmcclain) and Nachi Ueno have

Re: [Openstack] [Netstack] Multiple vNICs for Multiple networks.

2012-08-02 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi, Yes, if you do not specify networks using the “–nic” option you will get a vnic on each of the public networks and one for each network belonging to that tenant. Using the “—nic net-id=uuid-xyz” option you can refer to specific networks on which you want the vnics. Thanks, ~Sumit. From: n

Re: [Netstack] Multiple vNICs for Multiple networks.

2012-08-02 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi, Yes, if you do not specify networks using the “–nic” option you will get a vnic on each of the public networks and one for each network belonging to that tenant. Using the “—nic net-id=uuid-xyz” option you can refer to specific networks on which you want the vnics. Thanks, ~Sumit. From: n

Re: [Netstack] [Quantum] plugin -> backend

2012-07-30 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi, I believe there are two topics of discussion here, one of which is the terminology. The way things are implemented today, I agree that the “plugin” terminology seems a bit confusing. However, probably the bigger topic of discussion is what kind of a design is preferable, “backend” versus “p

Re: [Netstack] [Quantum] Starting a discussion on the official spec for v2 API

2012-07-17 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi All, I second Gary's suggestion here for a network type attribute. I was curious to know why we moved away from the kwargs mechanism which we had earlier in the core API. That made it easier to pass any plugin-specific parameters which need not be core attributes, and not have to necessarily

Re: [Netstack] requirements for quantum plugins

2012-06-29 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
I think it's fair to expect that, for a plugin to be in the community repo, it be maintained by at least one core dev. Also, in cases where a new plugin is being introduced by new contributors, at least one of them can be promoted to core dev (if none of the existing core devs take responsibilit

[Netstack] Quantum unassigned bugs

2012-06-22 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi All, The following bugs are not assigned to anyone but are targeted for F2. Is anyone working, or wants to work, on them? * https://bugs.launchpad.net/quantum/+bug/1014989 - "check foreign key ownership for port/subnet creation" * https://bugs.launchpad.net/quantum/+bug/1007998 - "xml suppo

[Netstack] Quantum pending reviews

2012-06-22 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi All, As we head into the weekend, just wanted to take a stock of the pending reviews (it's my turn today :-)). ** Quantum reviews: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack/quantum,n,z * https://review.openstack.org/#/c/8822/ - "Add simple file loggin to ovs_quantum_a

Re: [Netstack] Reviews

2012-06-17 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Gary, As for #3 it might be an intermittent failure, console output says: 14:08:19 Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure 14:08:19 Looks like the node went offline during the build. Check the slave log for the details. You probably want to kick off the build again (I am not sur

Re: [Netstack] proposing Yong Sheng Gong for quantum-core

2012-06-04 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
+1 From: netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Dan Wendlandt Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 6:18 PM To: netstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: [Netstack] proposing Yong Sheng Gong for quantum-core On

Re: [Netstack] proposing gary kotton for quantum-core

2012-06-04 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
+1 From: netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Dan Wendlandt Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 10:18 AM To: netstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: [Netstack] proposing gary kotton for quantum-core Hi fo

Re: [Netstack] Fwd: [Openstack] [devstack/quantum] Configuration issue

2012-05-16 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
...@redhat.com Cc: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat); netstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Netstack] Fwd: [Openstack] [devstack/quantum] Configuration issue On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Gary Kotton wrote: Thanks! As far as I recall, and I may certain be wrong here, but in the past I did not see

Re: [Netstack] Fwd: [Openstack] [devstack/quantum] Configuration issue

2012-05-16 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
This is probably not a devstack issue. The problem is with the LB gateway driver wherein the IP address is trying to be set on a bridge device which already has an IP address. The check for an existing bridge is being performed, but the IP address is being set outside that check. Ideally, this code

Re: [Netstack] ScalableAgents(https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/scalable-agent-comms)

2012-05-12 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
2. Thanks Gary On 05/10/2012 10:05 AM, Gary Kotton wrote: On 05/10/2012 12:55 AM, Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) wrote: Hi Gary, Thanks for initiating this. A couple of comments/questions - 1. Do we really need the VIF driver to communicate the agent's identity; I am referring to the

Re: [Netstack] Scalable Agents(https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/scalable-agent-comms)

2012-05-09 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Gary, Thanks for initiating this. A couple of comments/questions - 1. Do we really need the VIF driver to communicate the agent's identity; I am referring to the agent ID being sent by the VIF driver in the message? In general, I am not sure if there is a need to have the VIF driver send messa

Re: [Netstack] L3/IPAM summit discussion follow-up...

2012-04-26 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
nts WITHIN a Quantum deployment. Connectivity between different Quantum deployments, or to remote datacenters not running Quantum is viewed many as a separate service (e.g., L3VPN-service). On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Robert Kukura wrote: On 04/24/2012 10:12 AM, Sumit Naiksatam (sn

Re: [Netstack] L3/IPAM summit discussion follow-up...

2012-04-25 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
e: [Netstack] L3/IPAM summit discussion follow-up... > > On 04/24/2012 10:12 AM, Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Thanks for your feedback on the L3 (forwarding) proposal during the > > summit and also prior to that. The action item coming out of t

Re: [Netstack] Quantum agents

2012-04-25 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Gary, Thanks for taking up the work on improving the HA aspects of some of the agents. (I will respond to your review request once I get a chance to test the changes, but the diff looks good.) I agree with your assessment that the factoring of common agent code is probably a larger activ

[Netstack] L3/IPAM summit discussion follow-up...

2012-04-24 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi All, Thanks for your feedback on the L3 (forwarding) proposal during the summit and also prior to that. The action item coming out of the summit session was to further discuss this with the Melange/IPAM team to identify points of overlap and/or what are the additional requirements. Accordingly,

Re: [Netstack] L3 Forwarding

2012-04-14 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
April 11, 2012 2:09 PM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Cc: netstack@lists.launchpad.net; Brad Hall; Carl Perry Subject: Re: L3 Forwarding On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) wrote: Hi All, Per the context setup by Dan in his email on the topic of Quantum L3 Forwardi

Re: [Netstack] L3 Forwarding

2012-04-12 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Thanks Andi. Responses inline... > -Original Message- > From: andi abes [mailto:andi.a...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 7:22 PM > To: Dan Wendlandt > Cc: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat); netstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Netstack] L3 Forwarding

Re: [Netstack] L3 Forwarding

2012-04-06 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
; Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 3:28 PM > To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) > Cc: Jason Kölker; > Subject: Re: [Netstack] L3 Forwarding > > Sumit, > > You can see the latest Melange documentation here: > > http://melange.readthedocs.org/en/latest/apidoc.html > > The

Re: [Netstack] quantum community projects & folsom summit plans

2012-04-05 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Here's a thought - to the point on having to avoid churn in the nova code (on account Quantum plugin specific VIFs), how about we try to solve this issue via packaging? What if we have a separate Quantum nova driver package which when deployed will install the VIF drivers in the appropriate locatio

Re: [Netstack] quantum essex-rc2 is out

2012-04-03 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Thanks Dan, let me go through these and sync up with you directly (to avoid unnecessary noise on the mailer). Thanks, ~Sumit. From: Dan Wendlandt [mailto:d...@nicira.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 2:44 PM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Cc: netstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re

Re: [Netstack] L3 Forwarding

2012-04-03 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
2 5:56 AM > To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) > Cc: Jason Kölker; > Subject: Re: [Netstack] L3 Forwarding > > > On Apr 3, 2012, at 12:24 AM, Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) wrote: > > > Hi Jason, > > > > Per the information published, Melange is an IPAM service > (

Re: [Netstack] quantum essex-rc2 is out

2012-04-03 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Dan, On the documentation part, I can try to help to the extent I can. Please let me know how I can pitch in. Thanks, ~Sumit. From: netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Dan Wendlandt

Re: [Netstack] L3 Forwarding

2012-04-02 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
nchpad.net] On > Behalf Of Jason Kölker > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 9:16 PM > To: netstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Netstack] L3 Forwarding > > On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 20:59 -0700, Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) wrote: > > Following is a summary of the additio

[Netstack] L3 Forwarding

2012-04-02 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi All, Per the context setup by Dan in his email on the topic of Quantum L3 Forwarding, here is an addition we are making to the earlier proposal - API/specification pertaining to creating and managing "targets". I have updated the API specification with this addition and posted the new version o

Re: [Netstack] Kickstart for Layer 3 discussions

2012-03-29 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
how your work can complement those? Thanks, ~Sumit. From: Juliano Martinez [mailto:juliano.marti...@locaweb.com.br] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 3:33 PM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Cc: Willian Molinari; Subject: Re: [Netstack] Kickstart for Layer 3 discussions Hi Sumit

Re: [Netstack] Kickstart for Layer 3 discussions

2012-03-29 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Willian, All, Thanks for your thoughts on this. The discussions around L3 abstractions/API have been ongoing for a while now. To be precise, the discussions started during the Essex design summit, and we took action items away from the summit to work during the past few months. Subsequen

Re: [Openstack] problem with quantum

2012-03-28 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi William, >From the looks of it, you seem to be trying to use the Quantum LinuxBridge plugin and facing the issue. The error you mention below suggests that you might not be pointing to the right linuxnet_interface_driver (you should be seeing bridge names starting with a "brq-" and then firs

Re: [Netstack] [Bug 966079] [NEW] starting"plugins/linuxbridge/agent/linuxbridge_quantum_agent.py"failed: no such table: vlan_bindings

2012-03-27 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
quot;ALL" instead of "USAGE".) Thanks, ~Sumit. > -Original Message- > From: boun...@canonical.com [mailto:boun...@canonical.com] On Behalf Of > Christian Berendt > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 2:53 AM > To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) > Subject: [Bug 966079] [NEW]

[Netstack] Multinode Devstack with Quantum (was RE: Opensack + Devstack Tutorial)

2012-03-21 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Dave, Thanks for sharing this. I had been independently working on this a few days back, and wanted to compare notes with you (I saw other emails as well on this topic, hence thought it might be helpful to have a broader discussion). For the localrc files, * Would it be better to use HOST_IP_

Re: [Netstack] quantum community projects & folsom summit plans

2012-03-21 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
; plans > > > > We would also like to cover some topics that relate to running > Quantum at > > scale. This would include API rate limiting and caching, > understanding the > > models for scaling out the service and where we should make things > more > > asynchron

Re: [Netstack] Fwd: [Openstack] Quantum 2012.1 RC1 available

2012-03-21 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
s.launchpad.net] On > Behalf Of Tomasz Paszkowski > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:13 AM > To: netstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Netstack] Fwd: [Openstack] Quantum 2012.1 RC1 available > > Hi, > > Comments inline > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:18 AM

Re: [Netstack] quantum community projects & folsom summit plans

2012-03-20 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Deepak, and All, I feel this is very good dimension to factor in while prioritizing which tasks to take up for Folsom - what are the consumers of the Quantum service asking for? Not to say that any, or all of what has already been mentioned in this thread is not driven by requirements; I am

Re: [Netstack] Fwd: [Openstack] Quantum 2012.1 RC1 available

2012-03-20 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
agent has to be run so that the per-host configuration is done correctly. So the agent is needed. Of course, if there are any issues, those need to be fixed. Dnia 20-03-2012 o godz. 22:29 "Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)" napisał(a): Hi Ghe, Thanks for this up

Re: [Netstack] Fwd: [Openstack] Quantum 2012.1 RC1 available

2012-03-20 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Ghe, Thanks for this update. The Linux Bridge plugin also needs an agent. I would imagine that the packaging of that agent would be very similar to that of the openvswitch-agent, but I don't know enough on the packaging to say with any certainty. Also, the Cisco plugin does not use an

Re: [Netstack] Merge is failing on quantum repo

2012-03-16 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Thanks Monty, problem seems to have gone away. > -Original Message- > From: Monty Taylor [mailto:mord...@inaugust.com] > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 1:32 AM > To: Dan Wendlandt > Cc: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat); netstack@lists.launchpad.net; Thierry > Carrez; James E. B

Re: [Netstack] Merge is failing on quantum repo

2012-03-16 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Thanks Dan for your prompt attention. Plan sounds good, we will stay tuned for any updates on this. ~Sumit. From: Dan Wendlandt [mailto:d...@nicira.com] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 11:53 PM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Cc: netstack@lists.launchpad.net; Thierry Carrez; Monty Taylor

[Netstack] Merge is failing on quantum repo

2012-03-15 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi All, It's failing with the following trace, and we are not sure what's causing it: Installing collected packages: quantum Running setup.py install for quantum Installing quantum-linuxbridge-agent script to /home/jenkins/workspace/gate-quantum-unittests/.tox/jenkins27/bin Install

Re: [Openstack] Networking guru needed: problem with FlatManager ARP when guest and bridge MACs the same

2012-03-14 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
We are following a similar approach, as indicated by Brian here, in the Linux-bridge plugin for Quantum. There is a dummy tap device created with the requested MAC address, and is the first one to get added to the bridge. Subsequently, the bridge's MAC address stays anchored to this tap device's MA

Re: [Netstack] proposal for new quantum-core devs

2012-03-13 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
+1 for all! From: netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Debo Dutta (dedutta) Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:09 PM To: Debo Dutta (dedutta); Dan Wendlandt; netstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [

Re: [Netstack] bug 948467 - agent root_helper

2012-03-13 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Bob, Thanks for taking this up. Responses inline. ~Sumit. > -Original Message- > From: Robert Kukura [mailto:rkuk...@redhat.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 9:40 AM > To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat); Dan Wendlandt; Brad Hall; > netstack@lists.launchpad.net > Cc:

Re: [Netstack] Mac address in quantum port

2012-03-11 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Tomoe, I don't think we, as a community, have discussed this requirement. In general, for plugin-specific features, there is always an option to expose/implement them as extensions. Check the section on API Extensions here: http://wiki.openstack.org/QuantumDevelopment Thanks, ~Sumit. > -O

Re: [Openstack] PyCon 2012 Sprints update

2012-03-11 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Michael, Thanks for taking the lead on this. I was curious to know as to what the agenda is on the following sprint topic: "defining a first draft of an API for layer 3 networking support" Is this discussion in the context of Nova or Quantum (probably both)? While on that, I would like to dra

Re: [Netstack] [Openstack] PyCon 2012 Sprints update

2012-03-11 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Michael, Thanks for taking the lead on this. I was curious to know as to what the agenda is on the following sprint topic: "defining a first draft of an API for layer 3 networking support" Is this discussion in the context of Nova or Quantum (probably both)? While on that, I would like to dra

Re: [Netstack] important bug fix to review

2012-02-28 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Thanks Dan for the heads up; as mentioned on the IRC, we are looking at it. Also am signed up for the review. ~Sumit. From: netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Dan Wendlandt Sent: Tuesday, Feb

Re: [Netstack] VM creation error in Devstack

2012-02-08 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Dan, Thanks for the clarifying this, and also kudos for keeping the documentation in sync. While on this, is there a way to subscribe to changes in the Quantum documentation (or better still, subscribe the netstack mailer)? I think that might help to preempt these kind of issues. The general

Re: [Netstack] where did the common folder go?

2012-02-02 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
o=eu.citrix.com@lists.launchpad .net] On Behalf Of Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Sent: 02 February 2012 03:15 To: Edgar Magana (eperdomo); netstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Netstack] where did the common folder go? Hi Edgar, With the splitting of repos, I believe you will need the pytho

Re: [Netstack] where did the common folder go?

2012-02-01 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Edgar, With the splitting of repos, I believe you will need the python-quantumclient package and the quantum-common packages: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quantum/+index Per my understanding, there is a common git repo for the client and the common code: https://github.com/open

Re: [Netstack] Howto retrieve a server's VIF

2011-11-09 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
A quick comment (and not to distract from the theme of the thread), the UCS plugin does support plug and unplug operations. From: netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Salvatore Orlando Sent: Wedn

[libvirt] RFC decoupling VM NIC provisioning from VM NIC connection to backend networks

2011-10-28 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi, In its current implementation Libvirt makes sure that the network interfaces that it passes/provision to a VM (for example to qemu[-kvm]) are already connected to its backend (interfaces/networks) by the time the VM starts its boot process. In a non virtualized setup it would be like booting a

[Qemu-devel] RFC decoupling VM NIC provisioning from VM NIC connection to backend networks

2011-10-28 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi, In its current implementation Libvirt makes sure that the network interfaces that it passes/provision to a VM (for example to qemu[-kvm]) are already connected to its backend (interfaces/networks) by the time the VM starts its boot process. In a non virtualized setup it would be like booting a

[Netstack] Requesting review

2011-10-25 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi All, We have posted some tests and fixes in the Diablo code for review (this is all within the Cisco plugin/extensions): https://review.openstack.org/1070 We need one more person to review. Thanks, ~Sumit. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~netstack Post to : netstack@lists.laun

Re: [Netstack] Wiki page for operational status in Quantum API

2011-10-20 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Salvatore/Dan, Yes, we can take a look a this. Salvatore we will sync with you on a separate thread on how to go about it. Thanks, ~Sumit. From: Salvatore Orlando [mailto:salvatore.orla...@eu.citrix.com] Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:22 AM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat); Dan

Re: [Netstack] Wiki page for operational status in Quantum API

2011-10-20 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Salv, Echo Dan's suggestions and comments, great write-up. Just a general comment (& this is a nit) - "Examples of situations in which a resource might not be operative include faults, insufficient capabilities in the physical or virtual switching layer, or simply, in the case of ports, the

Re: [Netstack] Changing the update_{network,port} calls

2011-10-19 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Brad, Thanks for starting this discussion. A quick note in the context of the reference to the Cisco plugin in your email (and don't mean to distract from the broader theme of the discussion), the changes will have to be made in multiple interfaces & modules (since there is a hierarchy), not ju

Re: [Netstack] [Openstack] Announcing Nova subteams

2011-10-18 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Apologies for the incorrect link, the link should be: http://wiki.openstack.org/l3-service?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=qu antum-nova-parity-SumitNaiksatam-v3.pdf From: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:46 PM To: 'Dan Wendlandt'; netstack@l

Re: [Netstack] [Openstack] Announcing Nova subteams

2011-10-18 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi, Following up on the topic of nova-network parity, we also wanted to continue the discussion around how the proposed L3 service can be leveraged to achieve this. We have posted a very preliminary flow in the document here: http://wiki.openstack.org/quantum-multi-switch-plugin?action=Atta

Re: [Netstack] Code coverage status

2011-10-18 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
On that note, I would also like to nominate Rohit Agarwalla for membership. He participated & will continue to do so with code and review activities. +1 for Edgar Thanks, ~Sumit. > -Original Message- > From: netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco@lists.launchpad.net > [mailto:netstack-boun

Re: [Netstack] 'Basic VLAN' plugin - some thoughts

2011-10-17 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Salvatore, Thanks for starting this. A few comments/questions - * You mention - "This model however implies that the Quantum plugin will be doing not just the 'logical' plugging of the VIF/vNIC, but also the 'physical' plugging, which is not what happens today." May be I am not reading t

Re: [Netstack] Review approval protocol (gerrit)

2011-10-16 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Dan, I have looked at the changes and they seem to be fine. Thanks for taking care of this. We will need to do more testing on this, and there are other changes as well for which we will propose a merge soon from another branch. Until then, this is fine on the trunk. Since the branch

[Netstack] Etherpad for L3 Services Blueprint

2011-10-04 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
http://etherpad.openstack.org/l3service Thanks, ~Sumit. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~netstack Post to : netstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~netstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Netstack] Quantum API 1.1 session - proposed agenda

2011-09-30 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Thanks Salvatore. I am fine on item 6 and will get back to you with more info. I am guessing that the discussion on item 2 will help to address the asynchronous API requirements. As a general suggestion on item 3, can we also consider having the following attributes be a part of every quant

Re: [Netstack] Quantum 2011.3 Diablo is out!

2011-09-26 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Perfect Dan; yes Vif flags as described in Section 4.2. From: Dan Wendlandt [mailto:d...@nicira.com] Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 2:28 PM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Cc: netstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Netstack] Quantum 2011.3 Diablo is out! Thanks Sumit, I will turn

Re: [Netstack] Quantum 2011.3 Diablo is out!

2011-09-26 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Thanks, ~Sumit. From: Dan Wendlandt [mailto:d...@nicira.com] Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 9:06 AM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Cc: netstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Netstack] Quantum 2011.3 Diablo is out! Thanks Sumit, great feedback. Most comments I just applied

Re: [Netstack] Quantum 2011.3 Diablo is out!

2011-09-26 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Dan, As always, great work. Here are some minor suggestions after a quick read - Page 2, 2.2.1, "At its core, Quantum control the network connectivity..." --> controls Page 2, 2.2.2 - "For an OpenStack service (e.g., Nova) to work with Quantum, it must be modified to inform Quantum a

Re: [Netstack] Proposing sessions for Openstack design summitq

2011-09-19 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Thanks Dan. I am pretty much in line with your thinking. From: Dan Wendlandt [mailto:d...@nicira.com] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 1:03 PM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Cc: Salvatore Orlando; Ram Durairaj (radurair); netstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Netstack] Proposing

Re: [Netstack] Proposing sessions for Openstack design summitq

2011-09-19 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
session if there is an overlap. Thanks, ~Sumit. From: Dan Wendlandt [mailto:d...@nicira.com] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 12:16 PM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Cc: Salvatore Orlando; Ram Durairaj (radurair); netstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Netstack] Proposing sessions for Openst

Re: [Netstack] Proposing sessions for Openstack design summitq

2011-09-19 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi All, Here are a few more issues which we think need to be tackled - * A framework for Rollback after Operation Failure, Troubleshooting & Diagnostics: The realization of the APIs supported by the Quantum service (such as create_network, create_port) results in a series of steps in the

Re: [Netstack] D-4 drop delayed: cli appears broken in trunk

2011-08-26 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Done on the first count, not on the second J...thanks for pointing it out... From: Dan Wendlandt [mailto:d...@nicira.com] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 1:38 AM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Cc: Salvatore Orlando; netstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Netstack] D-4 drop delayed: cli

Re: [Netstack] D-4 drop delayed: cli appears broken in trunk

2011-08-26 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
J I could do it, but I think someone like Tyler who has more familiarity with the code can do a better job. On seeing this thread, I did reach out to him and made that suggestion. From: netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco@lists.lau

Re: [Netstack] Quantum tenant <--> Nova ?

2011-08-24 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
rlando [mailto:salvatore.orla...@eu.citrix.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 3:15 AM > To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat); netstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: RE: Quantum tenant <--> Nova ? > > I haven't looked in detail at this issue yet, though I expected it > w

[Netstack] Quantum tenant <--> Nova ?

2011-08-24 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
My apologies if this question has already been answered/discussed - what is a tenant within Quantum mapped to in Nova? I noticed that Nova is still refers to project-id and apparently uses that a tenant when interfacing with Keystone. So does a Quantum tenant map to a Nova project? Thanks, ~Sumit.

Re: [Netstack] Tackling authN/authZ for Diablo-4

2011-08-03 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Thanks Salv for spelling out the deliverables on this topic. On the point of the "simplified mode", I wasn't very clear on what you meant by "Although in theory several users can be defined for a tenant, we will assume that each user has the same administrative rights." Does this mean that each

Re: [Netstack] Aligning API implementation with specification

2011-08-02 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Thanks Salvatore for outlining the efforts around aligning the API. As for the issue of synchronous versus asynchronous. I agree that leaving it to the plugin to implement the behavior might be more flexible and also alleviate the burden on the API framework implementation. Having said that, ea

Re: [Netstack] "network-refactoring-l2" branch, and Quantum

2011-07-25 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
, July 25, 2011 6:18 PM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Cc: Ishimoto, Ryu; netstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: "network-refactoring-l2" branch, and Quantum Hi Sumit, On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) wrote: (4)This last one is probably not specif

Re: [Netstack] "network-refactoring-l2" branch, and Quantum

2011-07-25 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
ross more than one tenant? Thanks, ~Sumit. From: Troy Toman [mailto:troy.to...@rackspace.com] Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 10:41 AM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Cc: Ishimoto, Ryu; Subject: Re: [Netstack] "network-refactoring-l2" branch, and Quantum On Jul 25, 2011, at

Re: [Netstack] "network-refactoring-l2" branch, and Quantum

2011-07-25 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
on as well in communicating between nova and Quantum. Thanks, ~Sumit. From: Ishimoto, Ryu [mailto:r...@midokura.jp] Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 4:58 AM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Cc: Dan Wendlandt; netstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: "network-refactoring-l2" branch,

Re: [Netstack] "network-refactoring-l2" branch, and Quantum

2011-07-25 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
n the nova API side (and not on the Quantum side as my email seemed to suggest), right? Thanks, ~Sumit. From: Dan Wendlandt [mailto:d...@nicira.com] Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 10:46 PM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Cc: Ishimoto, Ryu; netstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: "networ

[Netstack] "network-refactoring-l2" branch, and Quantum

2011-07-24 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Ryu, Dan, and others involved, I had some questions regarding how the code base in the "network-refactoring-l2" branch currently works (or is supposed to) with Quantum. As I understand, eventually we want to get to a point where one should be able to run the Quantum service instead of the nova

[Netstack] libvirt template (in network-refactoring-l2 branch)

2011-07-22 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Ryu, Wanted to point out a small change required in the 802.1Qbh template, it should be: Notice that the place holders should have a "'" around them, which is missing in the current templat

Re: [Netstack] Exception in network-refactoring-l2 branch

2011-07-20 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
seems like even in that case, the system does look at this. Setting it to NULL helped get past this. Thanks, ~Sumit. From: Deepak N [mailto:dee...@thoughtworks.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 11:39 PM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Cc: Ishimoto, Ryu; netstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re

[Netstack] Exception in network-refactoring-l2 branch

2011-07-19 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Ryu, I am seeing the following exception when starting a VM, any clue as to what might be going wrong in my setup? Thanks, ~Sumit. nova-compute.log: 2011-07-19 20:29:13,287 DEBUG nova.rpc [-] received {u'_context_request_id': u'15OCH-PML6F3OL-761VR', u'_context_read_deleted': False, u'args':

[Openstack] [NetStack] Nova refactoring for Quantum

2011-06-14 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi, Just wanted to follow up on the discussion in today's NetStack meeting around the different network interface attachment types to be covered by the nova refactoring effort. I had a question on how Quantum gets the information about where a VM is being placed (so as to configure networking on

[Openstack] [NetStack]Quantum routes error

2011-06-14 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi, I encountered a regular expression error when running Quantum service on a Red Hat installation. The Quantum service is not able to process any requests on account of which this error. The exception trace is appended to this email, but in short, the offending regular expression appears to be c

Re: [Openstack] [NetStack] Proposed changes to Quantum API

2011-06-08 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi Salvatore, Just to confirm, the proposal is to keep: POST /networks/{net_id}/ports/{port_id}/attachment DELETE /networks/{net_id}/ports/{port_id}/attachment GET /networks/{net_id}/ports/{port_id}/attachment But remove: POST /networks/{net_id}/attachments GET /networks/{net_id}

[Openstack] libxml2 vs ElementTree for XML

2011-06-01 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi, Is there a preference to use one versus the other in OpenStack? I noticed that libxml2 is currently being used in places, however there are comments suggesting the need to be move to ElementTree. Kindly suggest. Thanks, ~Sumit. ___ Mailing list: h

Re: [Openstack] [NetStack] "Attach resource to port" semantics

2011-05-31 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
e "source dev" and "profiled"? Thanks, ~Sumit. From: Dan Wendlandt [mailto:d...@nicira.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 9:53 AM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack][NetStack] "Attach resource to port" sema

Re: [Openstack] [NetStack] "Attach resource to port" semantics

2011-05-31 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
between Nova and Quantum fleshed out). Thanks, ~Sumit. From: Dan Wendlandt [mailto:d...@nicira.com] Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 11:15 PM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] [NetStack] "Attach resource to port" semantics Hi Sum

[Openstack] [NetStack] "Attach resource to port" semantics

2011-05-30 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Hi, I would like to request clarity on the semantics of the "attach resource to port" operation proposed in Quantum in the context of spawning a VM. Let's discuss this with respect to a specific example. As of today, nova-compute generates the domain configuration (libvirt.xml), including the n