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Hi,
I would like to add here. The original question was actually about distributing the load on a network node.

Although it is possible to distribute the network services like neutron-server, l3-agent, dhcp-agent etc we have to understand that this does not distribute the load.

Consider the l3-agent. The l3 agent provides routing functionality and no mater how many routers you create in your openstack all are going to be handled by a single node where l3-agent is installed.

The dhcp-agent runs all dnsmasq on a single node.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but shouldn't this architecture be refined to really distribute the load than just distributing the services on multiple nodes.

Considering the flexibility of openflow rules, why can not the l3 agent add flow rules that perform routing on the compute nodes themselves, rather than concentrating all the traffic to the node running l3-agent then routing from there.

Thank you,
Ageeleshwar K
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