[openstack-dev] [Nova] Bug #741626 - FLAGS.fixed_range is silly

Nathanael Burton nathanael.i.burton at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 19:16:30 UTC 2013


I thought of that after I posted the last update. Attached is a hack of my
initial patch (not completed).  It doesn't currently add the logic to check
if fixed_range is set and a few other things.  It's fairly small in scope,
about a dozen changes.

Nate


On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Mar 4, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Nathanael Burton <
> nathanael.i.burton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 03/04/2013 12:52 PM, Nathanael Burton wrote:
>> > Problem 1: Users have to specify the 'fixed_range' in the first place in
>> > their nova.conf file, when it shouldn't be necessary as the system (DB
>> > networks table) has all the information it needs to set up the NATs
>> > correctly.  If this eventually gets implemented we can deprecate and
>> > then remove the flag entirely in Havana or future.
>>
>> Right. This is kind of what I'm saying... we should just do this now and
>> not add any more confusion to the nova.conf options.
>>
>> Best
>> -jay
>>
>
> To be clear, you agree that this should be done?
>
> Then:
>
> 1. Keep 'fixed_range' in Grizzly with a new default (?) value of 'dynamic'
> meaning use the new behavior and completely remove the 'fixed_range' flag
> in Havana
>
>
> or
>
> 2. Do the dynamic fixed_range automatically and remove 'fixed_range'
> altogether in Grizzly?
>
>
> Rather than use 'dynamic' I think we should key of of 'not fixed_range'
> and default it to none and mark it deprecated. I'd have to see how complex
> the code is but it seems a bit late to get this into grizzly.
>
> Vish
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