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[Kevin Benton <1415221@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

The default lease time Neutron sets right now for the DHCP agent is
86400. This means that changing the IP of a VM's port could make it
unreachable for up to 12 hours (assuming it sends a DHCP request at
half-lease intervals) because the iptables rules are immediately updated
to only match the new address even though the client is using the old
address.

Restarting the VM in this case sucks. Logging into the VM via the
console is okay as long as password based logins are still enabled, but
that's still not scriptable.

IMO this lease time is too large for networks that could have very
dynamic life-cycles with regards to addressing.

** Affects: neutron
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Kevin Benton (kevinbenton)
         Status: Opinion

** Changed in: neutron
       Status: New => Opinion

** Changed in: neutron
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Kevin Benton (kevinbenton)

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Title:
  dhcp lease default is unfathomably large

Status in OpenStack Neutron (virtual network service):
  Opinion

Bug description:
  The default lease time Neutron sets right now for the DHCP agent is
  86400. This means that changing the IP of a VM's port could make it
  unreachable for up to 12 hours (assuming it sends a DHCP request at
  half-lease intervals) because the iptables rules are immediately
  updated to only match the new address even though the client is using
  the old address.

  Restarting the VM in this case sucks. Logging into the VM via the
  console is okay as long as password based logins are still enabled,
  but that's still not scriptable.

  IMO this lease time is too large for networks that could have very
  dynamic life-cycles with regards to addressing.

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