> -----Original Message----- > From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] > Sent: 08 May 2012 19:04 > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Open vSwitch tunnel Manager (aka Cloudstack SDN) - > community feedback required! > > > >I think it makes more sense to derive GRE key from internal IDs. > > >Those GRE keys are not like VLAN IDs that admins need to use them to > > >configure switches, GRE keys are only used internally and there is no > > >need to expose them to users/administrators. > > > > The need to be able to specify a specific id or range is to integrate > > with external devices. Let's say the Juniper SRX could easily support > > GRE tunnels. Then it might be required to be able to specify the exact > range. > > It would at least be helpful for the IDs to be visible to provider level > administrators (hopefully I'm getting the role name correctly) for > troubleshooting purposes. > > -chip
Hi Chip, Thanks for your feedback! I reckon you mean allowing domain admins/root admins to read GRE keys assigned to guest networks via API/GUI, is that correct? Do you think they should also have the ability of assigning specific keys to particular guest networks if needed? Salvatore
