<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Fox, Kevin M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Kevin.Fox@pnnl.gov" target="_blank">Kevin.Fox@pnnl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Its because someone recommended devstack be switched to linux bridge so that its easier for folks to learn openstack. but my assertion is, if all production sites will have to run ovs </blockquote><div><br></div><div>I believe this is a false assertion and the crux of the disagreement in this thread. There are valid use cases where OVS is not required, nor many features of Neutron, however desirable they may be to other use cases.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Its a waste of their time. Set the default to be whatever the production default is.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is generally good advice and we do follow it much of the time. This happens to be one area where the value of 'production default' is not set in source code. In these cases DevStack makes an opinionated choice, and that choice is based on a number of factors. Here overall simplicity and similarity to the existing default (nova-net) are strong selectors for LB.</div><div><br></div><div>Frankly, if LB is so bad, let's prepare the patch to deprecate it first thing in Liberty and remove it in M.</div><div><br></div><div>dt </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><br>Dean Troyer<br><a href="mailto:dtroyer@gmail.com">dtroyer@gmail.com</a><br></div>
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