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[Aaron Rosen <arosen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Eugene,

This means that if a VM stops it's DHCP client that nova-network will be
aware of this since the VM will not attempt to renew it's DHCP lease.

Aaron

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Eugene Kirpichov <ekirpichov@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The documentation
>
> http://docs.openstack.org/diablo/openstack-compute/admin/content/configuring-flat-dhcp-networking.html
> has the passage: "The nova-network service will track leases and
> releases in the database so it knows if a VM instance has stopped
> properly configuring via DHCP"
>
> Can someone briefly explain me what this means, if possible with rough
> pointers to code?
> I don't recall nova noticing when my VM actually stopped properly
> configuring via DHCP.
>
> --
> Eugene Kirpichov
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekirpichov
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