diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
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@@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ Going further
 -------------
 
 Learn more about our :doc:`configuration system <configuration>` to
-customize devstack for your needs.
+customize devstack for your needs. Including making adjustments to the
+default :doc:`networking <networking>`.
 
 Read :doc:`guides <guides>` for specific setups people have (note:
 guides are point in time contributions, and may not always be kept
diff --git a/doc/source/networking.rst b/doc/source/networking.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+=====================
+ DevStack Networking
+=====================
+
+An important part of the DevStack experience is networking that works
+by default for created guests. This might not be optimal for your
+particular testing environment, so this document tries it's best to
+explain what's going on.
+
+Defaults
+========
+
+If you don't specify any configuration you will get the following:
+
+* neutron (including l3 with openvswitch)
+* private project networks for each openstack project
+* a floating ip range of 172.24.4.0/24 with the gateway of 172.24.4.1
+* the demo project configured with fixed ips on 10.0.0.0/24
+* a ``br-ex`` interface controlled by neutron for all it's networking
+  (this is not connected to any physical interfaces).
+* DNS resolution for guests based on the resolv.conf for you host
+* an ip masq rule that allows created guests to route out
+
+This creates an environment which is isolated to the single
+host. Guests can get to the external network for package
+updates. Tempest tests will work in this environment.
+
+.. note::
+
+   By default all OpenStack environments have security group rules
+   which block all inbound packets to guests. If you want to be able
+   to ssh / ping your created guests you should run the following.
+
+   .. code-block:: bash
+
+      openstack security group rule create --proto icmp --dst-port 0 default
+      openstack security group rule create --proto tcp --dst-port 22 default
+
+Locally Accessible Guests
+=========================
+
+If you want to make you guests accessible other machines on your
+network, we have to connect ``br-ex`` to a physical interface.
+
+Dedicated Guest Interface
+-------------------------
+
+If you have 2 or more interfaces on your devstack server, you can
+allocate an interface to neutron to fully manage. This **should not**
+be the same interface you use to ssh into the devstack server itself.
+
+This is done by setting with the ``PUBLIC_INTERFACE`` attribute.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+   [[local|localrc]]
+   PUBLIC_INTERFACE=eth1
+
+That will put all layer 2 traffic from your guests onto the main
+network. When running in this mode the ip masq rule is **not** added
+in your devstack, you are responsible for making routing work on your
+local network.
+
+Shared Guest Interface
+----------------------
+
+.. warning::
+
+   This is not a recommended configuration. Because of interactions
+   between ovs and bridging, if you reboot your box with active
+   networking you may loose network connectivity to your system.
+
+If you need your guests accessible on the network, but only have 1
+interface (using something like a NUC), you can share your one
+network. But in order for this to work you need to manually set a lot
+of addresses, and have them all exactly correct.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+   [[local|localrc]]
+   PUBLIC_INTERFACE=eth0
+   HOST_IP=10.42.0.52
+   FLOATING_RANGE=10.42.0.52/24
+   PUBLIC_NETWORK_GATEWAY=10.42.0.1
+   Q_FLOATING_ALLOCATION_POOL=start=10.42.0.250,end=10.42.0.254
+
+In order for this scenario to work the floating ip network must match
+the default networking on your server. This breaks HOST_IP detection,
+as we exclude the floating range by default, so you have to specify
+that manually.
+
+The ``PUBLIC_NETWORK_GATEWAY`` is the gateway that server would normally
+use to get off the network. ``Q_FLOATING_ALLOCATION_POOL`` controls
+the range of floating ips that will be handed out. As we are sharing
+your existing network, you'll want to give it a slice that your local
+dhcp server is not allocating. Otherwise you could easily have
+conflicting ip addresses, and cause havoc with your local network.
diff --git a/doc/source/site-map.rst b/doc/source/site-map.rst
index 74b944b5e1..801fc66b80 100644
--- a/doc/source/site-map.rst
+++ b/doc/source/site-map.rst
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
    overview
    configuration
+   networking
    plugins
    plugin-registry
    faq