Public bug reported: In case when dynamic routing agent becomes unreachable, neutron takes these actions:
1. Remove all BGP speakers from unreachable agents 2. Schedule all unassigned BGP speakers on available DrAgents This behavior can be undesirable, in the following cases: 1. Speakers are removed from DrAgent, even if there is no other alive agent running. Sometimes, I'd prefer them to stay configured exactly where they are, and come back after DrAgent is back online, after the server is restarted or so. This sometimes leads to situations, especially when there is only one active DrAgent, that speakers are not configured on any DrAgent at all. 2. Sometimes it is desirable to let operator control which components are running where. For example, not every node running DrAgent has reachability to all iBGP peers, and network designer places route reflectors, DrAgents, BGP speakers, in their appropriate places, keeping in mind high availability and other concerns. In these setups, it could be better to let the speaker fail on DrAgent which is down. Moving speaker to another DrAgent also means that the source IP address for the BGP session will also change, which sometimes can be not so good to reconfigure on the other side of BGP peering, and not predictable at all. These situations may happen after following change was introduced: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron-dynamic-routing/+/478455 My proposal is to add a configuration flag to control this behavior: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron-dynamic-routing/+/780675 ** Affects: neutron Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to neutron. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1920065 Title: Automatic rescheduling of BGP speakers on DrAgents Status in neutron: New Bug description: In case when dynamic routing agent becomes unreachable, neutron takes these actions: 1. Remove all BGP speakers from unreachable agents 2. Schedule all unassigned BGP speakers on available DrAgents This behavior can be undesirable, in the following cases: 1. Speakers are removed from DrAgent, even if there is no other alive agent running. Sometimes, I'd prefer them to stay configured exactly where they are, and come back after DrAgent is back online, after the server is restarted or so. This sometimes leads to situations, especially when there is only one active DrAgent, that speakers are not configured on any DrAgent at all. 2. Sometimes it is desirable to let operator control which components are running where. For example, not every node running DrAgent has reachability to all iBGP peers, and network designer places route reflectors, DrAgents, BGP speakers, in their appropriate places, keeping in mind high availability and other concerns. In these setups, it could be better to let the speaker fail on DrAgent which is down. Moving speaker to another DrAgent also means that the source IP address for the BGP session will also change, which sometimes can be not so good to reconfigure on the other side of BGP peering, and not predictable at all. These situations may happen after following change was introduced: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron-dynamic-routing/+/478455 My proposal is to add a configuration flag to control this behavior: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron-dynamic-routing/+/780675 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1920065/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp