[Openstack] [openstack-dev] multiple external networks not working

Yongsheng Gong gongysh at unitedstack.com
Thu Feb 13 07:54:24 UTC 2014


in order that the router is scheduled to a l3 agent with a given external
network,  we should create the router and set its gateway interface on that
external network just after the router creation.


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Nick Ma <skywalker.nick at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a multiple external networks environment:
>
> | 6fd43d02-221a-44fe-8088-dc5915512c14  |   Ext-Net-2   |
> 1a530334-9dd7-45f3-aa6a-2bb1a5dad562 192.168.1.0/24 |
> | a2946b29-6be5-4285-9eb9-99625ec2a283 |    Ext-Net      |
> dfbc7f6c-c3dd-4c56-a142-48964e2e474c 192.168.2.0/24 |
>
> Each of the external network is served by a single L3-agent. I also
> declare "gateway_external_network_id" in each l3_agent.ini, and set
> external_network_bridge.
>
> Then, I set up tenants, routers and gateways as follows:
>
> TenantA <--> TenantA-Router <--> Ext-Net <--> Internet
> TenantB <--> TenantB-Router <--> Ext-Net-2 <--> Internet
>
> I find that both qrouter-xxx is associated with only one L3-agent, not
> as expected.
>
> I debugged l3-agent-router-scheduler component to see how it works. I
> found that:
>
> Before the router is scheduled, I print agent objects out:
>
> <neutron.db.agents_db.Agent[object at 2ba9150] {...
> configurations=u'{"router_id": "", "gateway_external_network_id":
> "6fd43d02-221a-44fe-8088-dc5915512c14", ...>
>
> The gateway_external_network_id is actual there.
>
> And I print router object out:
>
> Router: {'status': u'ACTIVE', 'external_gateway_info': None, 'name':
> u'TenantA-R1', 'gw_port_id': None, 'admin_state_up': True, 'tenant_id':
> u'b181fd2406784da5895a966da4b74126', 'routes': [], 'id':
> u'14ff540e-13c6-4aec-8064-a74320f62a0d'}
>
> The external_gateway_info is None.
>
> Finally, I run "neutron router-show":
>
> 7ab3f8f4-89c8-4735-a5c2-4c0a09103bf1 | TenantA-R1 | {"network_id":
> "6fd43d02-221a-44fe-8088-dc5915512c14", "enable_snat": true}
>
> The external_gateway_info is there.
>
> So, I guess that:
>
> The router scheduler works before I associate with external gateway to
> that router.
>
> in neutron/db/l3_agentschedulers_db.py:
> def get_l3_agent_candidates(self, sync_router, l3_agents)
>     gateway_external_network_id = agent_conf.get(
>                 'gateway_external_network_id', None)
>     ex_net_id = (sync_router['external_gateway_info'] or {}).get(
>                 'network_id')
>
> It compares the two variables to see if they are equal, the l3-agent is
> candidate.
>
> Forget to tell that it happens for HAVANA stable release. I haven't
> tested master branch yet.
>
> 1. A bug or by design?
> 2. How to run multiple external networks?
>
> --
>
> Nick Ma
> skywalker.nick at gmail.com
>
>
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