Hi Eugene, This means that if a VM stops it's DHCP client that nova-network will be aware of this since the VM will not attempt to renew it's DHCP lease. Aaron On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Eugene Kirpichov <ekirpichov at gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > The documentation > > http://docs.openstack.org/diablo/openstack-compute/admin/content/configuring-flat-dhcp-networking.html > has the passage: "The nova-network service will track leases and > releases in the database so it knows if a VM instance has stopped > properly configuring via DHCP" > > Can someone briefly explain me what this means, if possible with rough > pointers to code? > I don't recall nova noticing when my VM actually stopped properly > configuring via DHCP. > > -- > Eugene Kirpichov > http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekirpichov > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20120818/9210a6fb/attachment.html>