[Rdo-list] Trying out Neutron Quickstart running into issues with netns (l2 agent and dhcp agent)

[Perry Myers]

On 08/13/2013 08:09 PM, Perry Myers wrote:
> On 08/04/2013 09:57 AM, Perry Myers wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I followed the instructions at:
>> http://openstack.redhat.com/Neutron-Quickstart
>> http://openstack.redhat.com/Running_an_instance_with_Neutron
> 
> Ok, I wanted to close the loop on this thread with some things I found.
> 
> It appears that the issues I was seeing had to do specifically with the
> 114.openstack kernel in the RDO Grizzly repos.  This kernel had issues
> with being able to change MAC addresses with an interface that is in the
> up state.
> 
> A new kernel was uploaded today 114.openstack.gre.2 and rkukura sent an
> announcement out about it, as it enables gre tunnel support.
> 
> A side effect of this new kernel is that it fixed the bugs with changing
> MAC addresses on interfaces that are up.
> 
> So, with this new kernel, I'm now able to successfully get RDO Grizzly
> on RHEL 6.4 with the 114.openstack.gre.2 kernel running.  I can boot a
> Cirros VM, get an ip address, get external connectivity from the VM and
> also ssh/ping it via the floating IP.
> 
> So... all in all, success!
> 
> Now, the next step is doing a multi host setup.  This is where the new
> support for gre tunnels will be handy, since moving from 1 to many nodes
> requires either VLAN support or tunnels, and since I don't have an
> intelligent switch, gre tunnels it is.

Oh, one thing to note... I did all of the above on hosts (VMs) where
NetworkManager was removed.  I should try on hosts where NM is enabled
to see if I still have success...