vmware-nsx/neutron/services/l3_router
Bob Melander 715b16aca7 Adds support for L3 routing/NAT as a service plugin
- Adds L3 routing/NAT service plugin
- Removes L3 routing/NAT from ML2 plugin
- Moves "router:external" attribute to new extension "External-net"
- Introduces separate RPC topic for L3 callbacks from L3 agent

Implements: blueprint quantum-l3-routing-plugin

Change-Id: Id9af10c2910f9a1730b163203a68d101ffc3b282
2013-09-11 12:12:10 +02:00
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__init__.py Adds support for L3 routing/NAT as a service plugin 2013-09-11 12:12:10 +02:00
l3_router_plugin.py Adds support for L3 routing/NAT as a service plugin 2013-09-11 12:12:10 +02:00
README Adds support for L3 routing/NAT as a service plugin 2013-09-11 12:12:10 +02:00

This service plugin implements the L3 routing functionality (resources router
and floatingip) that in earlier releases before Havana was provided by core
plugins (openvswitch, linuxbridge, ... etc).

Core plugins can now choose not to implement L3 routing functionality and
instead delegate that to the L3 routing service plugin.

The required changes to a core plugin are in that case:
- Do not inherit 'l3_db.L3_NAT_db_mixin' (or its descendants like extraroute)
  anymore.
- Remove "router" from 'supported_extension_aliases'.
- Modify any 'self' references to members in L3_NAT_db_mixin to instead use
  'manager.NeutronManager.get_service_plugins().get(constants.L3_ROUTER_NAT)'
  For example,
     self.prevent_l3_port_deletion(...)
  becomes something like
     plugin = manager.NeutronManager.get_service_plugins().get(
         constants.L3_ROUTER_NAT)
     if plugin:
         plugin.prevent_l3_port_deletion(...)

If the core plugin has relied on the L3Agent the following must also be changed:
- Do not inherit 'l3_rpc_base.L3RpcCallbackMixin' in any '*RpcCallbacks' class.
- Do not be a consumer of the topics.L3PLUGIN topic for RPC.

To use the L3 routing service plugin, add
'neutron.services.l3_router.l3_router_plugin.L3RouterPlugin'
to 'service_plugins' in '/etc/neutron/neutron.conf'.
That is,
service_plugins = neutron.services.l3_router.l3_router_plugin.L3RouterPlugin