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Vega,

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Vega Cai <luckyvega.g at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just would like to share a way to test Tricircle north-south L3 networking
> without requiring the third interface.
>
> In the Tricircle readme, it is said that you need to add an interface in
> your host to br-ext bridge. One interface to access the host, one interface
> for east-west networking and one interface for north-south networking, so
> all together three interfaces are required.
>
> What if your host only have two interfaces? Here is another deployment
> choice.
>
> First, change your external network type to flat type. If you are using the
> DevStack script provided by Tricircle, do the following changes in node2
> local.conf then run DevStack in node2.
>
>     (1) change Q_ML2_PLUGIN_VLAN_TYPE_OPTIONS
>         from (network_vlan_ranges=bridge:2001:3000,extern:3001:4000)
>         to (network_vlan_ranges=bridge:2001:3000)
>     (since we going to use flat external network, no need to configure VLAN
> range for extern)
>     (2) add PHYSICAL_NETWORK=extern
>     (3) keep OVS_BRIDGE_MAPPINGS=bridge:br-bridge,extern:br-ext

Good point.

>
> Second, specify flat type when creating external network.
>
>     curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:9696/v2.0/networks
>            -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
>            -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" \
>            -d '{"network": {"name": "ext-net", "admin_state_up": true,
> "router:external": true, "provider:network_type": "flat",
> "provider:physical_network": "extern", "availability_zone_hints":
> ["Pod2"]}}'

Understood.

>
> Third, configure IP address of br-ext.
>
>     sudo ifconfig br-ext 163.3.124.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
>     Here 163.3.124.1 is your external network gateway IP, set net mask
> according to your CIDR.
>
> After the above steps, you can access your VM via floating IP in node2. Also
> your VM can ping the external gateway.
>
> Would like your VM to access the Internet?(Of course node2 should be able to
> access the Internet) Two more steps to follow:
> (1) Enable packet forward in node2
>
>     sudo bash
>     echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
> (2) Configure SNAT in node2
>
>     sudo iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -s 163.3.124.0/24 -o eth1 -j SNAT
> --to-source 10.250.201.21
>
>     163.3.124.0/24 is your external network CIDR, eth1 is the interface
> associated with your default route in node2 and 10.250.201.21 is the IP of
> eth1.

I would like to avoid this kind of hackery way as much as possible.
I would like to see your further recommendation so that we easily and
quickly build cascaded stack system including top.

>
> Hope this information helps.
>
> BR
> Zhiyuan
>
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