On 30 March 2016 at 17:07, Abhishek Raut <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think what Gary is talking about is BGP and the Border Gateway API
> spec[1] in L2 GW repo.
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/270786/
>

Spec [1] has nothing to do with BGP (the routing protocol) last time I
checked (note to self: I should go and have another look). We should
probably consider clarify the confusion that stems from the use of the word
'Border' in spec [1].

A.


>
>
—Abhishek Raut
>
> From: "Tidwell, Ryan" <[email protected]>
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> Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 4:52 PM
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <
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> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] BGP support
>
> Gary,
>
>
>
> I’m not sure I understand the relationship you’re drawing between BGP and
> L2 GW, could you elaborate?  The BGP code that landed in Mitaka is mostly
> geared toward the use case where you want to directly route your tenant
> networks without any NAT (ie no floating IP’s, no SNAT).  Neutron peers
> with upstream routers and announces prefixes that tenants allocate
> dynamically.  We have talked about how we could build on what was merged in
> Mitaka to support L3 VPN in the future, but to my knowledge no concrete
> plan has emerged as of yet.
>
>
>
> -Ryan
>
>
>
> *From:* Gary Kotton [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>]
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 27, 2016 11:36 PM
> *To:* OpenStack List
> *Subject:* [openstack-dev] [Neutron] BGP support
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> In the M cycle BGP support was added in tree. I have seen specs in the L2
> GW project for this support too. Are we planning to consolidate the
> efforts? Will the BGP code be moved from the Neutron git to the L2-GW
> project? Will a new project be created?
>
> Sorry, a little in the dark here and it would be nice if someone could
> please provide some clarity here. It would be a pity that there were
> competing efforts and my take would be that the Neutron code would be the
> single source of truth (until we decide otherwise).
>
> I think that the L2-GW project would be a very good place for that service
> code to reside. It can also have MPLS etc. support. So it may be a natural
> fit.
>
> Thanks
>
> Gary
>
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