[openstack-dev] [Openstack][nova][Neutron] Launch VM with multiple Ethernet interfaces with I.P. of single subnet.

Kevin Benton blak111 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 06:53:48 UTC 2014


This seems painful for a tenant workflow to get multiple addresses. I would
like to improve this during the Juno cycle. What is the limitation that is
blocking the multi-nic use cases? Is it Nova?


On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Aaron Rosen <aaronorosen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> You'd would just create ports that aren't attached to instances and steal
> their ip_addresses from those ports and put those in the
> allowed-address-pairs on a port OR you could change the allocation range on
> the subnet to ensure these ips were never handed out. That's probably the
> right approach.
>
> Aaron
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Kevin Benton <blak111 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I was aware of allowed address pairs, but that doesn't help with
>> the IP allocation part.
>>
>> Is this the tenant workflow for this use case?
>>
>> 1. Create an instance.
>> 2. Wait to see what which subnet it gets an allocation from.
>> 3. Pick an IP from that subnet that doesn't currently appear to be in use.
>> 4. Use the neutron-cli or API to update the port object with the extra IP.
>> 5. Hope that Neutron will never allocate that IP address for something
>> else.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Aaron Rosen <aaronorosen at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Whoops Akihiro beat me to it :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Aaron Rosen <aaronorosen at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> The allowed-address-pair extension that was added here (
>>>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/38230/) allows us to add arbitrary
>>>> ips to an interface to allow them. This is useful if you want to run
>>>> something like VRRP between two instances.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Kevin Benton <blak111 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I was under the impression that the security group rules blocked
>>>>> addresses not assigned by neutron[1].
>>>>>
>>>>> 1.
>>>>> https://github.com/openstack/neutron/blob/master/neutron/agent/linux/iptables_firewall.py#L188
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Aaron Rosen <aaronorosen at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> You can do it with ip aliasing and use one interface:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.22/24
>>>>>> ifconfig eth0:1 10.0.0.23/24
>>>>>> ifconfig eth0:2 10.0.0.24/24
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state
>>>>>> DOWN qlen 1000
>>>>>>     link/ether 40:6c:8f:1a:a9:31 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>>>>>>     inet 10.0.0.22/24 brd 10.0.0.255 scope global eth0
>>>>>>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>>>>>>     inet 10.0.0.23/24 brd 10.0.0.255 scope global secondary eth0:1
>>>>>>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>>>>>>     inet 10.0.0.24/24 brd 10.0.0.255 scope global secondary eth0:2
>>>>>>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Kevin Benton <blak111 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Web server running multiple SSL sites that wants to be compatible
>>>>>>> with clients that don't support the SNI extension. There is no way for a
>>>>>>> server to get multiple IP addresses on the same interface is there?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Aaron Rosen <aaronorosen at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is true. Several people have asked this same question over the
>>>>>>>> years though I've yet to hear a use case why one really need to do this. Do
>>>>>>>> you have one?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Ronak Shah <
>>>>>>>> ronak at nuagenetworks.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Vikash,
>>>>>>>>> Currently this is not supported. the NIC not only needs to be in
>>>>>>>>> different subnet, they have to be in different network as well (container
>>>>>>>>> for the subnet)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>> Ronak
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Vikash Kumar <
>>>>>>>>> vikash.kumar at oneconvergence.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> *With 'interfaces' I mean 'nics' of VM*.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Vikash Kumar <
>>>>>>>>>> vikash.kumar at oneconvergence.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>      I want to launch one VM which will have two Ethernet
>>>>>>>>>>> interfaces with IP of single subnet. Is this supported now in openstack ?
>>>>>>>>>>> Any suggestion ?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanx
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
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