Interesting question. I've not used neutron in that way, if you don't get any relevant responses here I'd suggest reposting under a different subject like "programatically binding to neutron ports" or something similar, you may get a different set of readers, perhaps posting to the openstack-dev list (if you do be sure to include '[Neutron]' in your subject) as this is something typically done by services (nuetron-dhcp-agent, neutron-l3-agent, nova-compute) rather than a manual action by an operator or end user.
-Jon On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Ageeleshwar Kandavelu <ageeleshwar.kandav...@csscorp.com> wrote: > Lets say I do not want to launch nova instances that connect to a port. I > want to introduce a service that binds to that port similar to dnsmasq. How > do I make neutron perform this for me. > ________________________________________ > From: jonathan.pro...@gmail.com [jonathan.pro...@gmail.com] on behalf of > Jonathan Proulx [j...@jonproulx.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 8:33 PM > To: Ageeleshwar Kandavelu > Cc: openstack@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Neutron port-create command > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Ageeleshwar Kandavelu > <ageeleshwar.kandav...@csscorp.com> wrote: >> I am using neutron openvswitch plugin. I successfully created a port using >> neutron port-create, but I do not see the newly created port when I do >> 'ovs-vsctl show'. Is it that the port created is just a logical entity that >> just exists only in DB and only when a VM is launched It is created in >> openvswitch? > > port-create creates the port in the database, it's on a 'real thing' > until it is associated with an instance. At that point you can see it > in ovs tools. > > Note you don't need to create ports if you associate in instance with > a network it will dynamically create ports that are removed on shut > down. This is the more 'normal' use case. I use port-create to get > static MAC addresses for certain node locked software services (flexlm > license server in my case), there are likely other uses and I wouldn't > be surprised if using pre defined ports could shave a few seconds off > start up times, but not personally certain about that. > > -Jon > http://www.csscorp.com/common/email-disclaimer.php _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
