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.. (c) Bin Hu (AT&T) and Sridhar Gaddam (RedHat)
====================================
-Using IPv6 Feature of Fraser Release
+Using IPv6 Feature of Hunter Release
====================================
This section provides the users with gap analysis regarding IPv6 feature requirements with
-OpenStack Pike Official Release and Open Daylight Nitrogen Official Release. The gap analysis
+OpenStack Rocky Official Release and Open Daylight Fluorine Official Release. The gap analysis
serves as feature specific user guides and references when as a user you may leverage the
IPv6 feature in the platform and need to perform some IPv6 related operations.
-For more information, please find Neutron's IPv6 document for Pike Release [1]_.
+For more information, please find Neutron's IPv6 document for Rocky Release [1]_.
-*************************************
-IPv6 Gap Analysis with OpenStack Pike
-*************************************
+**************************************
+IPv6 Gap Analysis with OpenStack Rocky
+**************************************
This section provides users with IPv6 gap analysis regarding feature requirement with
-OpenStack Neutron in Pike Official Release. The following table lists the use cases / feature
+OpenStack Neutron in Rocky Official Release. The following table lists the use cases / feature
requirements of VIM-agnostic IPv6 functionality, including infrastructure layer and VNF
-(VM) layer, and its gap analysis with OpenStack Neutron in Pike Official Release.
+(VM) layer, and its gap analysis with OpenStack Neutron in Rocky Official Release.
Please **NOTE** that in terms of IPv6 support in OpenStack Neutron, there is no difference
-between **Pike** release and **Ocata** release.
+between **Rocky** release and prior, e.g. **Queens**, **Pike** and **Ocata**, release.
.. table::
:class: longtable
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
- |Use Case / Requirement |Supported in Pike |Notes |
+ |Use Case / Requirement |Supported in Rocky |Notes |
+===========================================================+===================+====================================================================+
|All topologies work in a multi-tenant environment |Yes |The IPv6 design is following the Neutron tenant networks model; |
| | |dnsmasq is being used inside DHCP network namespaces, while radvd |
@@ -125,9 +125,9 @@ between **Pike** release and **Ocata** release.
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|IPv6 Support in "Allowed Address Pairs" Extension |Yes | |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
- |Support for IPv6 Prefix Delegation. |Yes |Partial support in Pike |
+ |Support for IPv6 Prefix Delegation. |Yes |Partial support in Rocky |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
- |Distributed Virtual Routing (DVR) support for IPv6 |**No** |In Pike DVR implementation, IPv6 works. But all the IPv6 ingress/ |
+ |Distributed Virtual Routing (DVR) support for IPv6 |**No** |In Rocky DVR implementation, IPv6 works. But all the IPv6 ingress/ |
| | |egress traffic is routed via the centralized controller node, i.e. |
| | |similar to SNAT traffic. |
| | |A fully distributed IPv6 router is not yet supported in Neutron. |
@@ -150,25 +150,30 @@ between **Pike** release and **Ocata** release.
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
*********************************************
-IPv6 Gap Analysis with Open Daylight Nitrogen
+IPv6 Gap Analysis with Open Daylight Fluorine
*********************************************
This section provides users with IPv6 gap analysis regarding feature requirement with
-Open Daylight Nitrogen Official Release. The following table lists the use cases / feature
+Open Daylight Fluorine Official Release. The following table lists the use cases / feature
requirements of VIM-agnostic IPv6 functionality, including infrastructure layer and VNF
-(VM) layer, and its gap analysis with Open Daylight Nitrogen Official Release.
+(VM) layer, and its gap analysis with Open Daylight Fluorine Official Release.
-**Open Daylight Nitrogen Status**
+**Open Daylight Fluorine Status**
-In Open Daylight Nitrogen official release, the legacy ``Old Netvirt`` identified by feature
+In Open Daylight Fluorine official release, the legacy ``Old Netvirt`` identified by feature
``odl-ovsdb-openstack`` is deprecated and no longer supported. The ``New Netvirt``
identified by feature ``odl-netvirt-openstack`` is used.
+Two new features are supported in Open Daylight Fluorine official release:
+
+* Support for advertising MTU info in IPv6 RAs
+* IPv6 external connectivity for FLAT/VLAN based provider networks
+
.. table::
:class: longtable
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
- |Use Case / Requirement |Supported in ODL Nitrogen|Notes |
+ |Use Case / Requirement |Supported in ODL Fluorine|Notes |
+==================================================+=========================+==============================================================+
|REST API support for IPv6 subnet creation in ODL |Yes |Yes, it is possible to create IPv6 subnets in ODL using |
| | |Neutron REST API. |
@@ -190,11 +195,11 @@ identified by feature ``odl-netvirt-openstack`` is used.
| (east-west) | | |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|IPv6 Router support in ODL: |**NO** |This feature is targeted for Flourine Release. |
- | | |In ODL Nitrogen Release, RFE "IPv6 Inter-DC L3 North-South |
+ | | |In ODL Fluorine Release, RFE "IPv6 Inter-DC L3 North-South |
|3. External routing (north-south) | |Connectivity Using L3VPN Provider Network Types" Spec [3]_ is |
| | |merged. But the code patch has not been merged yet. |
| | |On the other hand, "IPv6 Cluster Support" is available in |
- | | |Nitrogen Release [4]_. Basically, existing IPv6 features were |
+ | | |Fluorine Release [4]_. Basically, existing IPv6 features were |
| | |enhanced to work in a three node ODL Clustered Setup. |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|IPAM: Support for IPv6 Address assignment modes. |Yes |ODL IPv6 Router supports all the IPv6 Address assignment |
@@ -214,21 +219,28 @@ identified by feature ``odl-netvirt-openstack`` is used.
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|Shared Networks support |Yes | |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
- |IPv6 external L2 VLAN directly attached to a VM. |**ToDo** | |
+ |IPv6 external L2 VLAN directly attached to a VM. |Yes |Targeted for Flourine Release |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
- |ODL on an IPv6 only Infrastructure. |**Work in Progress** |Deploying OpenStack with ODL on an IPv6 only infrastructure |
+ |ODL on an IPv6 only Infrastructure. |Yes |Deploying OpenStack with ODL on an IPv6 only infrastructure |
| | |where the API endpoints are all IPv6 addresses. |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|VxLAN Tunnels with IPv6 Endpoints |Yes | |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
+ |IPv6 L3VPN Dual Stack with Single router |Yes |Refer to "Dual Stack VM support in OpenDaylight" Spec [5]_. |
+ +--------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
+ |IPv6 Inter Data Center using L3VPNs |Yes |Refer to "IPv6 Inter-DC L3 North-South connectivity using |
+ | | |L3VPN provider network types" Spec [3]_. |
+ +--------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
+ |Support for advertising MTU info in IPv6 RAs |Yes | |
+ +--------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
+ |IPv6 external connectivity for FLAT/VLAN based |Yes | |
+ |provider networks | | |
+ +--------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
References
-.. [1] Neutron IPv6 Documentation for Pike Release: http://docs.openstack.org/neutron/pike/admin/config-ipv6.html
-
+.. [1] Neutron IPv6 Documentation for Rocky Release: http://docs.openstack.org/neutron/rocky/admin/config-ipv6.html
.. [2] How to Use Config-Drive for Metadata with IPv6 Network: http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/deploying-ipv6-only-tenants-with-openstack/
-
-.. [3] http://docs.opendaylight.org/en/latest/submodules/netvirt/docs/specs/ipv6-interdc-l3vpn.html
-
+.. [3] https://docs.opendaylight.org/projects/netvirt/en/stable-fluorine/specs/oxygen/ipv6-interdc-l3vpn.html
.. [4] http://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/66707/
-
+.. [5] https://docs.opendaylight.org/projects/netvirt/en/stable-fluorine/specs/oxygen/l3vpn-dual-stack-vms.html