On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 04:36:58PM +0300, Gal Sagie wrote:
> The change looks good to me.

Thanks, I applied this to master.

> The question i have is how will public network be configured/connected to
> the logical router in OVN?
> (In neutron router can only be connected to one public network)
> This layer also need to support SNAT/DNAT functionality between the public
> network and the
> virtual network connected to this router.
> 
> In order to implement this, at least in the API level, maybe we need to add
> this information to the
> Logical Router object, or be able to connect a special "Logical Switch"
> like Russell's suggestion
> in the provider networks talk, that can be attached to the router and
> represent public networks
> 
> What do you guys have in mind?

We haven't started to work on NAT yet.  It's only recently that I
realized that NAT was really important to OpenStack.  It sounds like we
might have a volunteer here to work on NAT, so I'll talk to him and see
if we can start sketching out a design on the mailing list.

> *** Less important issue: ****
> There is an additional extension called extra_route, which means that
> basically in OVN world
> this topology can happen:
>   VM1 -->  LS1 --> LR1 -->  LS  <-- LR2 <-- LS2 <-- VM2
> 
> And VM1 could find a route to VM2.
> I am not sure if all the plugins support this, or if its really that use
> full
> *** end less important issue ***

I don't think I understand the diagram, but if it's just about adding
additional routes beyond the primary one configured on each router port,
I'm sure that we can work that out.
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