<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Hi,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I am looking for options for removing Layer-2 in the underlay as much as possible.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">The features explained in the document, </span><a target="_blank" href="https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/zed/admin/config-bgp-floating-ip-over-l2-segmented-network.html" class="editor-rtfLink" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(74, 110, 224);"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">BGP floating IPs over L2 segmented network</span></a><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">, solve the problem for floating IPS where layer 2 is only needed between servers and rack switches.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Is there any specific reason that this feature is limited to floating IPS? As long as we have unique BGP next-hops defined for every DVR, it can also be used for advertising self-service networks /32 routes. </span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Thanks for the help</div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Deniz</div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>