[Openstack] Confused by the term 'provider network' in OpenStack doc

2013-05-20 Thread Zhidong Yu
It seems there are two different meaning for this term. One is about a sort of usage scenario where the virtual network is *directly *mapped to a physical and instance is *directly *connected to the outside world without floating IP or L3 agent [1]. The word 'provider' in this context could be unde

Re: [Openstack] Confused by the term 'provider network' in OpenStack doc

2013-05-21 Thread Salvatore Orlando
On 21 May 2013 05:01, Zhidong Yu wrote: > It seems there are two different meaning for this term. One is about a > sort of usage scenario where the virtual network is *directly *mapped to > a physical and instance is *directly *connected to the outside world > without floating IP or L3 agent [1].