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The idea is to round-robin between gateways by using some sort of mod
operation

So logically it can look something like:

    idx = len(gateways) % ip
    gateway = gateways[idx]


This is just one idea. I am open to more ideas.




On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Kevin Benton <blak111 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What gateway address do you give to regular clients via dhcp when you have
> multiple?
>
> On Jun 11, 2015 12:29 PM, "Shraddha Pandhe" <spandhe.openstack at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > Currently, the Subnets in Neutron and Nova-Network only support one
> gateway. For provider networks in large data centers, quite often, the
> architecture is such a way that multiple gateways are configured per
> subnet. These multiple gateways are typically spread across backplanes so
> that the production traffic can be load-balanced between backplanes.
> > This is just my use case for supporting multiple gateways, but other
> folks might have more use cases as well and also want to take the
> community's opinion about this feature. Is this something that's going to
> help a lot of users?
> > I want to open up a discussion on this topic and figure out the best way
> to handle this.
> > 1. Should this be done in a same way as dns-nameserver, with a separate
> table with two columns: gateway_ip, subnet_id.
> > 2. Should Gateway field be converted to a List instead of String?
> > I have also opened a bug  for Neutron here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1464361
> >
> >
> >
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