Extend Provider Network to External Gateway

About this task

Perform this procedure to extend provider network to external gateway using port based method. To extend the network using multi-segment based method​, see Single and Multi-Segment Networks with DC Edge.

Procedure

  1. Create a provider network. 
    # openstack network create provider-physical-network default --provider-network-type vlan --provider-segment 1234 dcgw_network1
    If the provider-physical-network is default, regular virtio ports are brought up on the provider and all corresponding end-points are provisioned.
  2. Extend the provider network to external gateway. 
    # openstack port create --network dcgw_network1 --device-owner network:dc_edge --host DCGW-1  dcgw1_port
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