<div dir="ltr">Neutron uses an overlay model with respect to differentiating against physical switch logic. Big Switch is getting into a more literal interpretation of SDN with the control/slave model but that's an approach that's been so disruptive to implement it hasn't gained significant traction last I heard.<div>
<br></div><div>I'd love to see Neutron talking to switches which will likely require an OCP standard such as opendaylight or similar.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Salvatore Orlando <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sorlando@nicira.com" target="_blank">sorlando@nicira.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">Hi Jeff,<div><br></div><div>in a nutshell, Neutron has its IPAM logic baked into the main 'db class'.</div><div>However, Neutron's IPAM does not manage at all the underlay - it manages exclusively devices in the 'logical' realm.</div>

<div><br></div><div>There are been discussions in the past concerning Physical appliance management in Neutron, not just from an IPAM perspective.</div><div>However, so far there is not yet anything targeted or proposed for the upcoming Juno release.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Salvatore</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 23 June 2014 19:39, Jeff dambly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Jeff_dambly@symantec.com" target="_blank">Jeff_dambly@symantec.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m new to OpenStack, and I was wondering what the community is using for IPAM solutions. It seems to me that neutron is doing something of these things, but how is IPAM being handled for underlay devices such as routers and switches?<u></u><u></u></p>

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