<div dir="ltr">Hi Carl and Akilesh,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for your response and explanation.</div><div>My manager tells me that enterprises usually use several IP addresses and ports for AT while Neutron just use external gateway port fixed IP for SNAT. I found that if I extended the SNAT attributes, the L3 plugin will be very complex. So I must tolerate this to provider more useful SNAT feature which is really what customer needs.</div><div>I think as a separated service, SNAT will be easier to do this or even it can support those scenarios.</div><div>We known that VPNaaS and FwaaS dependent on L3 route service but not AT which also dependents on L3. From this point, L2 is the core of network service and L3 is the core of other advanced services. ML3 is coming.<br></div><div>Besides, It's strange that L3's API contains a field called "snat_enable". Isn't it?</div><div><br></div><div>BR,</div><div>Germy</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Akilesh K <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:akilesh1597@gmail.com" target="_blank">akilesh1597@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>@Germy Lure,<br></div>I cannot give you a direct answer as I am not a developer. <br><br>But let me point out that openstack can make use of many agents for l3 and above and not just neutron-l3-agent. You may even create your own agent.<br><br>The 'neutron-l3-agent' works that way just to keep things simple. One point to consider is that Tenants may share same network space. So it becomes necessary to tie a router which belongs to a tenant to the tenant's security groups. If you try to distribute routing and firewall service you might end up making it too complicated. <br></div><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Carl Baldwin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carl@ecbaldwin.net" target="_blank">carl@ecbaldwin.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I don't think I know the precise answer to your question. My best guess is that floating ips were one of the initial core L3 features implemented before other advanced services existed. Implementing them in this way may have been the path of least resistance at the time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Are you suggesting a change? What change? What advantages would your change bring? Do you see something fundamentally wrong with the current approach? Does it have some deficiency that you can point out? Basically, we need a suggested modification with some good justification to spend time making that modification.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Carl</p>
<div style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Address Translation(FIP, snat and dnat) looks like an advanced service. Why it is integrated into L3 router? Actually, this is not how it's done in practice. They are usually provided by Firewall device but not router.<br></div><div><br></div><div>What's the design concept?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks&Regards,</div><div>Germy</div></div>
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