[Openstack] Manually freeing an IP address

Kenneth Koski ken at songwhale.com
Wed Aug 7 16:27:12 UTC 2013


Thanks! Yeah, this patch is exactly the functionality that I'm looking
for. That's unfortunate that it won't be backported, but I can
definitely understand that. Looks like I'll just have to find a
workaround for the moment until Havana is available to me.

On 08/07/2013 11:10 AM, Salvatore Orlando wrote:
> As Ashok said, Aaron is working on a patch for removing the need for
> holding an IP.
> This will make IP addresses immediately reusable, thus removing the
> 'hold' process.
> 
> This is however not likely to be backported to grizzly; it will be an
> havana feature.
> 
> Salvatore
> 
> 
> On 7 August 2013 17:44, Ashok Kumaran <ashokkumaran.b at gmail.com
> <mailto:ashokkumaran.b at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I hope you might be interested in
>     this https://review.openstack.org/#/c/37580/
> 
>     Best,
>     Ashok
> 
> 
>     On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Kenneth Koski <ken at songwhale.com
>     <mailto:ken at songwhale.com>> wrote:
> 
>         I'm working with OpenStack Grizzly, and I'm looking to be able
>         to remove
>         an assigned IP address and reassign it fairly quickly (in the
>         course of
>         several seconds). However, it looks like Grizzly will hold on to
>         an IP
>         address in accordance with the DHCP lease time. Right now, my
>         solution
>         is to delete the row from the ipallocations table, but this doesn't
>         quite work. I believe that I need to modify the ipavailabilityranges
>         table as well in order to get it to work. It seems like there
>         should be
>         a better way to do this, though. Is there some way of manually
>         freeing
>         up an IP address and reassigning it?
> 
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> 
>     -- 
>     Regds,
>      
>     Ashok ,
>     Delivery Consultant,
>     HP.
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