<div dir="ltr"><div>It's possible. We do it all the time.<br><br></div><div></div><div>However, without proper routing, Kevin and Joseph are correct. The VM will never receive replies to outbound packets because the upstream devices don't know where to send them.<br><br></div><div>I also forgot to mention - The edge device also needs to NAT the fixed IP of the VM to a public IP if you intend for your VMs to access the Internet. We use a global PAT rule to catch any VMs without a floating IP and allow them egress on a shared public IP.<br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:09 AM Akshay Kumar Sanghai <<a href="mailto:akshaykumarsanghai@gmail.com" target="_blank">akshaykumarsanghai@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Aaron,Mike,Kevin,Joseph,<div>Thanks for your inputs. </div><div>But I am still confused as Aaron and Mike are suggesting that it is possible and Joseph and Kevin are suggesting its not possible. </div><div>I tried to ping from the vm in openstack to outside of the cloud with only fixed ip assigned, but ping failed. When i assigned the floating ip to that vm, I can ping a system outside of the cloud. So, I am in doubt whether it is possible or not or there is some configuration issue in my setup.</div><div>Guys, Please help as i can't find a proper documentation regarding this.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Akshay</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Mike Spreitzer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mspreitz@us.ibm.com" target="_blank">mspreitz@us.ibm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><tt><font size="2">Aaron Segura <<a href="mailto:aaron.segura@gmail.com" target="_blank">aaron.segura@gmail.com</a>> wrote on
01/16/2016 12:19:53 PM:<br><br></font></tt></span></blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><tt><font size="2">> You shouldn't have to do anything other than disable SNAT and set
a <br>> route for your tenant network upstream.</font></tt></span></blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><tt><font size="2">Indeed, I have exercised exactly this.</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size="2">Regards,</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">Mike</font></tt><br><br><br></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div>