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Hi all,

The extra route extension allows setting up an hierarchical network
topology where there is a compute instance or an internal router that
separates an internal network from an external router. Traffic can be
routed by using extra routes on the external router, however, it is not
possible to assign floating IPs to an instance on the internal network.
This is because there is a code that validates reachability from the
external router to the internal network that does not take into account
the availability of extra routes.

The described setup is important to users who wish to place a
custom gateway that provides VPN, firewall or other functionality
to a publicly accessible network behind the gateway.

There is a bug opened about this issue:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1250105

There is a patch set for review:

https://review.openstack.org/55987

It was suggested that this may be considered as new functionality as
opposed to fixing a flaw, and should be proposed as a blueprint and
discussed on the dev mailing list.

A blueprint is available for discussion:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/floating-ip-extra-route

Thanks,

-Ofer Barkai