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On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 9:58 AM, lorinh at gmail.com <lorinh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah, I didn't realize there was a distinction between the two. From your
> description, It does sound like external networks are a subset of provider
> networks, but it would be good to get somebody else to chime in on this. Out
> of curiosity, what's your use case for using provider networks that aren't
> externally routable?
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> Lorin
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>> -Jon
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>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 8:19 PM, lorinh at gmail.com <lorinh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all:
>> >
>> > (Apologies if this topic has been covered before, it's been a while
>> > since
>> > I've contributed to OpenStack docs).
>> >
>> > While looking at the network guide, I noticed some inconsistent
>> > terminology
>> > used to describe the two types of networks you can create using the
>> > OpenStack Networking APIs.
>> >
>> > This section refers to these two networks as "tenant networks" and
>> > "provider
>> > networks":
>> >
>> > http://docs.openstack.org/networking-guide/intro_os_networking_overview.html#openstack-networking-concepts
>> >
>> > This scenario refers to them as "project networks" and "external
>> > networks":
>> > http://docs.openstack.org/networking-guide/deploy_scenario2.html
>> >
>> > The install guide uses the terms "tenant networks" and "external
>> > networks".
>> >
>> > http://docs.openstack.org/kilo/install-guide/install/apt/content/neutron-initial-networks.html
>> >
>> > I think it would reduce confusion to use the same terminology
>> > everywhere,
>> > especially within the networking guide, but ultimately across all of the
>> > docs.
>> >
>> >
>> > Take care,
>> >
>> > Lorin
>> >
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