Thanks. This definitely helps. Sent from my iPhone
> On May 2, 2016, at 9:27 PM, Aqsa Malik <aqs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is by design in OpenStack. A VM can't access the external network unless > assigned a floating IP. > Each private network exists behind the router and access to external networks > all happens via SNAT or Floating IPs. Each router uplink and floating IP is > allocated from the external network subnet. > Just as an add on, Hosts without floating IPs can still create outbound > connections to the external network, as the provider router performs SNAT to > the router's external IP. The IP address of the physical router is used as > the gateway_ip of the external network subnet, so the provider has a default > router for Internet traffic. > The internal network is for traffic between virtual machines in OpenStack, > and between the virtual machines and the network nodes that provide l3 routes > out to the public network (and floating IPs for connections back in to the > VMs). > I hope this helps. > >> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Jagga Soorma <jagg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> Need some clarification regarding routing for instances without a floating >> ip address. Basically we have instances connected to a priv network that is >> also connected to our external network and our security group allows all >> egress traffic. However, we can't seem to get to any resource on our >> external network till a floating ip address is assigned. Once we assign a >> floating ip address we can get out. Is that by design or is there something >> wrong with our configuration? >> >> Thanks. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > > -- > Aqsa Malik > Military College of Signals NUST > > visit my blog at > http://www.techiworld4u.blogspot.com
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