[openstack-dev] [Neutron] Interest in discussing vendor plugins for L3 services?

Hemanth Ravi hemanthraviml at gmail.com
Mon Feb 3 22:44:22 UTC 2014


Hi,

I would be interested in this discussion. Below are some time slot
suggestions:

Mon: 19:00, 20:00 UTC (11:00, 12:00 PST)
Wed: 20:00, 21:00 UTC (12:00, 13:00 PST)
Thu: 19:00, 20:00, 21:00 UTC (11:00, 12:00, 13:00 PST)

Thanks,
-hemanth


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Paul Michali <pcm at cisco.com> wrote:

> I'd like to see if there is interest in discussing vendor plugins for L3
> services. The goal is to strive for consistency across vendor
> plugins/drivers and across service types (if possible/sensible). Some of
> this could/should apply to reference drivers as well. I'm thinking about
> these topics (based on questions I've had on VPNaaS - feel free to add to
> the list):
>
>
>    - How to handle vendor specific validation (e.g. say a vendor has
>    restrictions or added capabilities compared to the reference drivers for
>    attributes).
>    - Providing "client" feedback (e.g. should help and validation be
>    extended to include vendor capabilities or should it be delegated to server
>    reporting?)
>    - Handling and reporting of errors to the user (e.g. how to indicate
>    to the user that a failure has occurred establishing a IPSec tunnel in
>    device driver?)
>    - Persistence of vendor specific information (e.g. should new tables
>    be used or should/can existing reference tables be extended?).
>    - Provider selection for resources (e.g. should we allow --provider
>    attribute on VPN IPSec policies to have vendor specific policies or should
>    we rely on checks at connection creation for policy compatibility?)
>    - Handling of multiple device drivers per vendor (e.g. have service
>    driver determine which device driver to send RPC requests, or have agent
>    determine what driver requests should go to - say based on the router type)
>
> If you have an interest, please reply to me and include some days/times
> that would be good for you, and I'll send out a notice on the ML of the
> time/date and we can discuss.
>
> Looking to hearing form you!
>
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