[ovs-discuss] how to forward all traffic from vm with dst 169.254.169.254 to local compute node

[Daniel Alvarez Sanchez]

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 2:09 PM Vasiliy Tolstov <v.tolstov at selfip.ru> wrote:
>
> чт, 16 мая 2019 г. в 14:57, Daniel Alvarez Sanchez <dalvarez at redhat.com>:
> >
> > In OpenStack we do this via a DHCP static route [0]. Then we use an
> > OVN 'localport' in the hypervisor inside a namespace to handle the
> > requests.
> >
> > [0] https://opendev.org/openstack/networking-ovn/src/branch/stable/stein/networking_ovn/common/ovn_client.py#L1524
> >
>
> Thank you, why namespace needed?
Isolation, just as in ML2/OVS. You may have different tenants using
the same IP address for the metadata port right? Or even the
hypervisor may have that IP address for something else and we don't
want to mess up.
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> Vasiliy Tolstov,
> e-mail: v.tolstov at selfip.ru