[openstack-dev] [neutron + ovn] Does neutron ovn plugin support to setup multiple neutron networks for one container?

Kevin Benton blak111 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 27 10:50:01 UTC 2015


Assuming it implements the normal provider networks API, you just specify
the segmentation_id when you create the network.

neutron net-create NET_NAME --provider:network_type vlan
--provider:physical_network physnet1 --provider:segmentation_id VLAN_TAG

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 9:50 AM, WANG, Ming Hao (Tony T) <
tony.a.wang at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:

> Russell,
>
> Another question is about "localnet". It is a very useful feature. :-)
>
> Is it possible to assign which VLAN tag will be used for a specific
> provider network?
> In your example in
> https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/c02819293d52f7ea7b714242d871b2b01f57f905
> : "physnet1" is used as physical network, and br-eth1 is used as the
> provider network OpenFlow switch.
> If we can assign the VLAN tag of the provider network, is the VLAN tag
> translation done by "br-int" or "br-eth1"?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WANG, Ming Hao (Tony T)
> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 2:26 PM
> To: 'Russell Bryant'; OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage
> questions)
> Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] [neutron + ovn] Does neutron ovn plugin
> support to setup multiple neutron networks for one container?
>
> Russell,
>
> Thanks for your valuable information.
> I understood Geneve is some kind of tunnel format for network
> virtualization encapsulation, just like VxLAN.
> But I'm still confused by the connection between Geneve and VTEP.
> I suppose VTEP should be on behalf of "VxLAN Tunnel Endpoint", which
> should be used for VxLAN only.
>
> Does it become some "common tunnel endpoint" in OVN, and can be also used
> as a tunnel endpoint for Geneve?
>
> Thanks,
> Tony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Bryant [mailto:rbryant at redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 12:04 AM
> To: WANG, Ming Hao (Tony T); OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for
> usage questions)
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron + ovn] Does neutron ovn plugin
> support to setup multiple neutron networks for one container?
>
> On 09/24/2015 10:37 AM, WANG, Ming Hao (Tony T) wrote:
> > Russell,
> >
> > Thanks for your detail explanation and kind help!
> > I have understand how container in VM can acquire network interfaces in
> different neutron networks now.
> > For the connections between compute nodes, I think I need to study
> Geneve protocol and VTEP first.
> > Any further question, I may need to continue consulting you. :-)
>
> OVN uses Geneve in conceptually the same way as to how the Neutron
> reference implementation (ML2+OVS) uses VxLAN to create overlay networks
> among the compute nodes for tenant overlay networks.
>
> VTEP gateways or provider networks come into play when you want to connect
> these overlay networks to physical, or "underlay" networks.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> --
> Russell Bryant
>
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