[openstack-dev] [Networking] Allocation of IPs

Mark McClain mark.mcclain at dreamhost.com
Mon Jun 24 14:04:42 UTC 2013


Here's the blueprint…

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/configurable-ip-allocation


On Jun 21, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Edgar Magana <emagana at plumgrid.com> wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> Can you point me to the BP for this feature?
> I want to keep an eye on it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Edgar
> 
> From: Mark McClain <mark.mcclain at dreamhost.com>
> Reply-To: OpenStack List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: Friday, June 21, 2013 12:41 PM
> To: OpenStack List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Networking] Allocation of IPs
> 
> There will be a deployment option where you can configure the default IP allocator.  Additionally, the allocator will be configurable at subnet creation time.
> 
> mark
> 
> 
> On Jun 20, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Edgar Magana <emagana at plumgrid.com> wrote:
> 
>> Could it be possible to add a flag to disable the allocation for the IP?
>> If the "no allocation" flag is enabled, all ports will have an empty value for IPs.
>>  It will increase the config parameters in quantum, should we try it?
>> 
>> Edgar
>> 
>> From: Mark McClain <mark.mcclain at dreamhost.com>
>> Reply-To: OpenStack List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
>> Date: Thursday, June 20, 2013 1:13 PM
>> To: OpenStack List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
>> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Networking] Allocation of IPs
>> 
>> There's work under way to make IP allocation pluggable. One of the options will include not having an allocator for a subnet.
>> 
>> mark
>> 
>> On Jun 20, 2013, at 2:36 PM, Edgar Magana <emagana at plumgrid.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Developers,
>>> 
>>> So far in Networking (formerly Quantum) IPs are pre-allocated when a new port is created by the following def:
>>> _allocate_ips_for_port(self, context, network, port):
>>> 
>>> If we are using a real DHCP (not the dnsmasq process) that does not accept static IP allocation because it only allocates IPs based on its own algorithm, how can we tell Networking to not allocate an IP at all?
>>> I don’t think that is possible based on the code but I would like to know if somebody has gone through the same problem and have a workaround solution.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Edgar
>>> 
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