Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] About ports backing floating IPs

2014-01-15 Thread Salvatore Orlando
, 2014 3:50 PM *To:* OpenStack Development Mailing List *Subject:* [openstack-dev] [Neutron] About ports backing floating IPs TL;DR; I have been looking back at the API and found out that it's a bit weird how floating IPs are mapped to ports. This might or might not be an issue, and several

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] About ports backing floating IPs

2014-01-15 Thread Ian Wells
Logically, the port is really an alias for the external port of the router, rather than being just detached. I'm not sure this adds much to the discussion, but clearly that's where its traffic goes and is terminated. From past experience (don't ask) weird things happen if you start creating your

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] About ports backing floating IPs

2014-01-15 Thread shihanzhang
I am also perplexed about the ports backing floating ips. when plugin is selected OVS or LB, the ip address belonging to a port backing that floating ip is really set on VIF of 'qg-' , what is the port real action? At 2014-01-15 07:50:36,Salvatore Orlando sorla...@nicira.com wrote:

[openstack-dev] [Neutron] About ports backing floating IPs

2014-01-14 Thread Salvatore Orlando
TL;DR; I have been looking back at the API and found out that it's a bit weird how floating IPs are mapped to ports. This might or might not be an issue, and several things can be done about it. The rest of this post is a boring description of the problem and a possibly even more boring list of

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] About ports backing floating IPs

2014-01-14 Thread Yongsheng Gong
for all ports: user can change the device_id and device owner easily, it will cause mess in particularly for system ports, such as router interface and gateway ports, dhcp ports etc. dhcp port: there is not point of updating its security groups, and I don't know the effect when we update its Ip

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] About ports backing floating IPs

2014-01-14 Thread Fox, Kevin M
...@nicira.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:50 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List Subject: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] About ports backing floating IPs TL;DR; I have been looking back at the API and found out that it's a bit weird how floating IPs are mapped to ports. This might or might