<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hello,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I have a few questions related to private and external network in Quantum. I am running into some odd behavior with networking related to my VM instance that I am trying to resolve.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I used the following commands to create a private network and a router to which it is attached:</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div># quantum net-create --tenant-id $put_id_of_project_one net_proj_one --provider:network_type vlan --provider:physical_network physnet1 --provider:segmentation_id 1024</div>
<div># quantum subnet-create --tenant-id $put_id_of_project_one net_proj_one <a href="http://10.10.10.0/24" target="_blank">10.10.10.0/24</a> (step a)</div><div><br></div><div># quantum router-create --tenant-id $put_id_of_project_one router_proj_one</div>
<div># quantum router-interface-add $put_router_proj_one_id_here $put_subnet_id_here</div><div><br></div><div>Q: Upon executing "step a", does Quantum reserve the first IP address from the subnet's cidr range as a gateway_ip addr? If so, why? Does that happen even if the subnet is not attached to a router?</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I then used the following steps to create an external network:</div><div> <br></div><div># quantum net-create --tenant-id $put_id_of_service_tenant ext_net --router:external=True</div><div>
# quantum subnet-create --tenant-id $put_id_of_service_tenant --allocation-pool start=192.168.50.102,end=192.168.50.126 --gateway 192.168.50.1 ext_net<a href="http://192.168.50.100/24" target="_blank">192.168.50.100/24</a> --enable_dhcp=False (step b)</div>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Q: I am trying to understand the different options passed to " quantum subnet-create" for an external network:</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- start=192.168.50.102,end=192.168.50.126 : Is this the list of floating-IPs that are accessible from outside world? And these would be mapped to a private IP addr?<br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- <a href="http://192.168.50.1/" target="_blank">192.168.50.1</a>: Is this the outside gateway IP addr (provided by our IT)?<br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- <a href="http://192.168.50.100/24" target="_blank">192.168.50.100/24</a>: Is 192.168.50.100 assigned (reserved) for any purpose? What is this cidr represent?<br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- enable_dhcp=False : What is the effect of setting this to true? I mean how does Quantum dole out a floating IP mapping to which private IP, randomly?<br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thank you,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Ahmed.</div>