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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'd recommend Folsom over Essex :) And I'd highly recommend these
articles from Mirantis which really step through the networking setup in
VLANManager. Read through them in the following order and I promise at
the end you will have a much better understanding of networking in Nova.

http://www.mirantis.com/blog/openstack-networking-flatmanager-and-flatdhcpmanager/
http://www.mirantis.com/blog/openstack-networking-single-host-flatdhcpmanager/
http://www.mirantis.com/blog/openstack-networking-vlanmanager/
http://www.mirantis.com/blog/vlanmanager-network-flow-analysis/

All the best,
-jay

On 01/14/2013 11:52 AM, James Condron wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've recently started playing with (and working with) OpenStack with a
> view to migrate our production infrastructure from esx 4 to Essex.
> 
> My issue, or at least utter idiocy, is in the network configuration.
> Basically I can't work out whether in the configuration of OpenStack I
> have done something daft, on the network something daft or I've not
> understood the technology properly.
> 
> *NB: *I can get to the outside world form my VMs; I don't want to
> confuse things further.
> 
> As attached is a diagram I knocked up to hopefully make this simpler,
> though I hope I can explain it simply with:
> 
> *************
> *Given both public and private interfaces on my server being on the same
> network and infrastructure how would one go about accessing VMs via
> their internal IP and not have to worry about a VPN or Public IPs?*
> *************
> 
> My corporate network  works on simple vlans; I have a vlan for my
> production boxen, one for development, one for PCs, telephony, etc. etc.
> These are pretty standard.
> 
> The public, eth0 NIC on my compute node (Single node setup, nothing
> overly fancy; pretty vanilla) is on my production vlan and everything is
> accessible.
> the second nic, eth1, is supposedly on a vlan for this specific purpose.
> 
> I am hoping to be able to access these internal IPs on their... Internal
> IPs (For want of a better phrase). Is this possible? I'm reasonably
> confident this isn't a routing issue as I can ping the eth1 IP from the
> switch:
> 
> #ping 10.12.0.1
> 
> Type escape sequence to abort.
> Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 10.12.0.1, timeout is 2 seconds:
> !!!!!
> Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 1/2/8 ms
> 
> But none of the ones assigned to VMs:
> 
> #ping 10.12.0.4
> 
> Type escape sequence to abort.
> Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 10.12.0.4, timeout is 2 seconds:
> .....
> Success rate is 0 percent (0/5)
> 
> Or.... for those looking at the attached diagram: vlan101 is great and
> works fine; what do I need to do (If at all possible) to get vlan102
> listening?
> 
> 
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