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[Neelakantam Gaddam <neelugaddam@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dan,

Can you point me to the brief instructions on how to run nova-network on a
VM and make it as a router?



Thanks
Neelakantam

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Dan Wendlandt <dan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Neelakantam,
>
> The essex model for implementing gateway/router is that nova-network
> creates these interfaces.  It would be possible to run nova-network in a
> VM, but that would be a single VM acting as a router for all tenants,
> whereas my guess is that you want a per-tenant VM acting as a router.
>  There's no automated mechanism for doing that now, though in Folsom we
> will be introducing a plugin model that would support a model where a
> per-tenant router is created to be the gateway for each tenant.  No one has
> volunteered to do this work though, but I'd love it if someone was
> interested.
>
> Dan
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Neelakantam Gaddam <neelugaddam@xxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am trying multi node setup using openstack and quantum using devstack.
>> My understanding is that for every tenant, there is a gateway interface
>> created in the physical host and these will act as gateways for the
>> tenants. Is it possible to configure a VM as a gateway/router for a tenant
>> and how can we do this ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
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>> Thanks & Regards
>> Neelakantam Gaddam
>>
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Thanks & Regards
Neelakantam Gaddam