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On 06/30/2016 10:32 AM, Mike Spreitzer wrote:
> No, those routers are routers.  If one of them gets a packet, the router
> will forward the packet as usual for a router.
 >
> You might think they don't handle connections into tenant networks, but
> that might be because nothing is trying to use them as routers for the
> tenant networks.  That's a question about the routing tables in the rest
> of your environment.
>
> If the client has a route to a Neutron tenant network that goes through
> a Neutron router, the client is able to connect to a server on the
> Neutron tenant network.
>
> The normal configuration for routers on the internet is to not forward
> traffic to the RFC 1918 addresses.  I do not recall how the Neutron
> routers handle packets addressed to those addresses from sources on the
> "outside".

For what it is worth, a quick test with some Mitaka-based bits, using 
192.168.123.0/24 as the private network and ping suggests the neutron 
routers will be willing to forward the traffic just fine.

That would be better than trying to do the same thing with instances as 
I proposed before.

happy benchmarking,

rick jones