[openstack-dev] [Networking] Allocation of IPs

Mark McClain mark.mcclain at dreamhost.com
Thu Jun 20 20:13:10 UTC 2013


There's work under way to make IP allocation pluggable. One of the options will include not having an allocator for a subnet.

mark

On Jun 20, 2013, at 2:36 PM, Edgar Magana <emagana at plumgrid.com> wrote:

> Developers,
> 
> So far in Networking (formerly Quantum) IPs are pre-allocated when a new port is created by the following def:
> _allocate_ips_for_port(self, context, network, port):
> 
> If we are using a real DHCP (not the dnsmasq process) that does not accept static IP allocation because it only allocates IPs based on its own algorithm, how can we tell Networking to not allocate an IP at all?
> I don’t think that is possible based on the code but I would like to know if somebody has gone through the same problem and have a workaround solution.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Edgar
> 
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