[openstack-dev] [neutron] Why is "network" and "subnet" modeled separately?

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 20:41:16 UTC 2013


On 08/14/2013 04:31 PM, Jay Buffington wrote:
> network is layer 2 and subnet is layer 3.

That's quite confusing.

> A common use case would be that one tenant creates a network with a
> 10.1.1.0/24 <http://10.1.1.0/24> subnet.  Another tenant wants to use
> that same network, so they create a new network and can also create the
> 10.1.1.0/24 <http://10.1.1.0/24> subnet.

Why not just call them all networks?

-jay




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