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Hi George,

I just tried your method and it seems working perfectly :)

Thanks for your valuable inputs.

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Geo Varghese <gvarghese at aqorn.com> wrote:

> Hi George,
>
> Thanks for the update. Yes, you are right that is the exact requirement.
>
> "assign ip from that network directly to the instance with out the use of
> a private net and floating ip over nat"
>
> I got a update about external network like this from list. Thats why i
> tried it like that.
>
> ==========================================================
>  A Neutron router can also be attached to the same network so that
> instances in non-routable tenant networks can obtain floating IPs from the
> same 'public' network. At one time non-admin users were not allowed to
> attach VMs to 'external' networks but I believe that restriction was
> removed around Kilo or so.
>
> Yes, as long as the network is marked as both 'shared' and external, a
> tenant can attach VMs and router gateway interfaces directly to it.
> ==========================================================
>
> According to your inputs, the above method is not correct right?
>
>
> And about the method of adding bridge to compute node, do we need to add
> following options?
>
> bridgemapping in ml2 conf
> enable_distributed_routing to true
>
> Thanks again for your time.
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 2:20 PM, George Paraskevas <paraskgeor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello there,
>>
>> From what I understand you want to assign ip from that network directly
>> to the instance with out the use of a private net and floating ip over nat.
>> Now you need to correct some things and you will be quite there. First when
>> you create an external network then that network can only work though
>> floating ip. So instead create the same net but don't mark it as external.
>> Also you need that bridge on compute nodes because the VM nic will bind
>> directly to it. So don't configure l3 agent just configure ml mapping for
>> that network. I hope you can under stand and I also hope I understood you.
>> Thanks
>> George
>>
>> On Sat, 31 Oct 2015, 08:43 Geo Varghese <gvarghese at aqorn.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Team,
>>>
>>> I need help with adding instance with fixed ip in external network with
>>> out using private and floating ip.
>>>
>>> I have tested it using following steps
>>>
>>> 1) Created a new nic - eth4 for new external network(192.168.122.0/24)
>>> in controller.
>>>
>>> 2) Created a bridge - br-ex2 and added eth4 as port to bridge.
>>>
>>> 3) Mapped this bridge in ml2 conf and restarted l3 agent and neutron
>>> plugin
>>>
>>> 4) Then added shared external network Ext2 in openstack. Then added
>>> subnet as  192.168.122.0/24
>>>
>>> 5) Added it to the router- router2 as interface with a IP -
>>> 192.168.122.99. Network topology shows the interface is active with this
>>> IP. Ping to this ip is also working from other machines.
>>>
>>> Later created VM in this network, but it failed with following error in
>>> nova-compute log.
>>>
>>> =========================================================
>>> Unable to mount image
>>> /var/lib/nova/instances/903a6630-941c-4fd0-948f-85522fa20979/disk with
>>> error libguestfs installed but not usable (/usr/bin/supermin-helper exited
>>> with error status 1.
>>> ==========================================================
>>>
>>> Please check attached screen shot of network topology.
>>>
>>> Please help me with your inputs.
>>>
>>> --
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Geo Varghese
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>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> --
> Regards,
> Geo Varghese
>



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Regards,
Geo Varghese
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