I have also started to capture some of our discussions here. https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/RoutedNetworking Thanks Rohit On 10/29/14 1:32 AM, "Cory Benfield" <Cory.Benfield at metaswitch.com> wrote: >On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 20:01:40, Kevin Benton wrote: >> I think the simplest use case is just that a provider doesn't want to >> deal with extending L2 domains all over their datacenter. > >This is the core motivation. As mentioned in Fred Baker's internet >draft[0], extending layer 2 domains can be extremely challenging, and >we've found it to be problematic to debug at setup time, let alone to >operate. > >If your tenants have no need of layer 2 networks (i.e. their workload is >all-IP), the datacenter network becomes much simpler in a routed model. >Generally speaking, simpler is better! > >Cory > >[0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-baker-openstack-ipv6-model-00 >_______________________________________________ >OpenStack-dev mailing list >OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev