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[Daniel Ellison <daniel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2013-04-26, at 7:53 PM, David Wittman <dwittman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is the expected behavior. With nova-network, FLIPs are assigned as a secondary address on the host interface, and traffic is routed to your instances via NAT rules. I'd recommend reading the following blog post from Mirantis for more information:
> 
> http://www.mirantis.com/blog/configuring-floating-ip-addresses-networking-openstack-public-private-clouds/

Excellent! Thanks for that information. It was just what I was looking for. Mystery solved!

Daniel