diff --git a/doc/install-guide/source/neutron-concepts.rst b/doc/install-guide/source/neutron-concepts.rst index eaa5962dac..29cee8e543 100644 --- a/doc/install-guide/source/neutron-concepts.rst +++ b/doc/install-guide/source/neutron-concepts.rst @@ -14,31 +14,25 @@ Each abstraction has functionality that mimics its physical counterpart: networks contain subnets, and routers route traffic between different subnets and networks. -Each router has one gateway that connects to a network, and many -interfaces connected to subnets. Subnets can access machines on other -subnets connected to the same router. - Any given Networking set up has at least one external network. Unlike the other networks, the external network is not merely a virtually defined network. Instead, it represents a view into a slice of the physical, external network accessible outside the OpenStack installation. IP addresses on the external network are accessible by -anybody physically on the outside network. Because the external network -merely represents a view into the outside network, DHCP is disabled on -this network. +anybody physically on the outside network. In addition to external networks, any Networking set up has one or more internal networks. These software-defined networks connect directly to the VMs. Only the VMs on any given internal network, or those on subnets -connected through interfaces to a similar router, can access VMs -connected to that network directly. +connected through interfaces to a similar router, can access VMs connected +to that network directly. For the outside network to access VMs, and vice versa, routers between the networks are needed. Each router has one gateway that is connected -to a network and many interfaces that are connected to subnets. Like a -physical router, subnets can access machines on other subnets that are -connected to the same router, and machines can access the outside -network through the gateway for the router. +to an external network and one or more interfaces connected to internal +networks. Like a physical router, subnets can access machines on other +subnets that are connected to the same router, and machines can access the +outside network through the gateway for the router. Additionally, you can allocate IP addresses on external networks to ports on the internal network. Whenever something is connected to a