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On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 15:29 -0600, Carl Baldwin wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Hong Hui Xiao <xiaohhui at cn.ibm.com> wrote:
> > I update [1] to auto delete dhcp port if there is no other ports. But
> > after the dhcp port is deleted, the dhcp service is not usable. I can
> 
> I think this is what I expect.
> 
> > resume the dhcp service by adding another subnet, but I don't think it is
> > a good way. Do we need to consider bind dhcp port to another segment when
> > deleting the existing one?
> 
> Where would you bind the port?  DHCP requires L2 connectivity to the
> segment which it serves.  But, you deleted the segment.  So, it makes
> sense that it wouldn't work.
> 
> Brandon is working on DHCP scheduling which should take care of this.
> DHCP should be scheduled to all of the segments with DHCP enabled
> subnets.  It should have a port for each of these segments.  So, if a
> segment (and its ports) are deleted, I think the right thing to do is
> to make sure that DHCP scheduling removes DHCP from that segment.  I
> would expect this to happen automatically when the subnet is deleted.
> We should check with Brandon to make sure this works (or will work
> when his work merges).

This is definitely something I've thought about, basically I'm treating
each segment as its own network, so in this case the rules that apply to
the network will be carried over for each segment with dhcp enabled
subnets.

> 
> Carl
> 
> > [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/317358


Thanks,
Brandon