[Openstack-operators] [openstack-operators][neutron] use-case for multiple routers within a tenant
Rubab Syed
rubab.syed21 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 18:19:17 UTC 2016
That makes perfect sense. Thank you.
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:28 AM, Fox, Kevin M <Kevin.Fox at pnnl.gov> wrote:
> We use them all the time, and openstack in one version actually broke them
> on us. (I wrote and contributed a unit test so it shouldn't happen again.)
>
> Use case:
>
> You have two external networks.
> 1. Internet - One that's directly connected to the internet.
> 2. One that is a private network space and is available to the whole cloud.
>
> Each tenant gets a router on each network (two routers total), defaulting
> to the internet one, and the subnet has a static routing rule to make the
> external private net route to the right neutron router.
>
> The user can then add floating ip's to one or both of the networks making
> the vm available on that network. If the service is internet facing, they
> can just put that type of floating ip on. If they want to share it with the
> other tenants but not with the internet, they just put that type of
> floating ip on.
>
> We don't have many ip's on the internet side, so having it split like this
> allows us to conserve ip's.
>
> Make sense?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Rubab Syed [rubab.syed21 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 08, 2016 2:20 PM
> *To:* openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* [Openstack-operators] [openstack-operators][neutron] use-case
> for multiple routers within a tenant
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to get a general understanding of OpenStack networking. Can
> someone please point out a simple use-case for using multiple routers
> within same tenant?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Rubab
>
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