Chapter 16. Networking (neutron) Parameters

DhcpAgentNotification

Enables DHCP agent notifications. The default value is True.

EnableVLANTransparency

If True, then allow plugins that support it to create VLAN transparent networks. The default value is False.

L2gwAgentEnableManager

Connection can be initiated by the ovsdb server. The default value is False.

L2gwAgentManagerTableListeningPort

Port number for L2 gateway agent, so that it can listen. The default value is 6632.

L2gwAgentMaxConnectionRetries

The L2 gateway agent retries to connect to the OVSDB server. The default value is 10.

L2gwAgentOvsdbHosts

L2 gateway agent OVSDB server list.

L2gwAgentPeriodicInterval

The L2 gateway agent checks connection state with the OVSDB servers. The interval is number of seconds between attempts. The default value is 20.

L2gwAgentSocketTimeout

Socket timeout. The default value is 30.

L2gwServiceDefaultDeviceName

Default device name of the L2 gateway. The default value is Switch1.

L2gwServiceDefaultInterfaceName

Default interface name of the L2 gateway. The default value is FortyGigE1/0/1.

L2gwServicePeriodicMonitoringInterval

The periodic interval at which the plugin updates the monitoring data. The default value is 5.

L2gwServiceProvider

Backend to use as a service provider for L2 Gateway. The default value is ['L2GW:l2gw:networking_l2gw.services.l2gateway.service_drivers.L2gwDriver:default'].

L2gwServiceQuotaL2Gateway

Quota of the L2 gateway. The default value is 5.

NeutronAllowL3AgentFailover

Allow automatic l3-agent failover. The default value is True.

NeutronApiOptEnvVars

List of optional environment variables.

NeutronApiOptVolumes

List of optional volumes to be mounted.

NeutronBridgeMappings

The logical to physical bridge mappings to use. The default (datacentre:br-ex) maps br-ex (the external bridge on hosts) to a physical name datacentre, which provider networks can use (for example, the default floating network). If changing this, either use different post-install network scripts or be sure to keep datacentre as a mapping network name. The default value is datacentre:br-ex.

NeutronCorePlugin

The core plugin for networking. The value should be the entrypoint to be loaded from neutron.core_plugins namespace. The default value is ml2.

NeutronDBSyncExtraParams

String of extra command line parameters to append to the neutron-db-manage upgrade head command.

NeutronDhcpAgentsPerNetwork

The number of DHCP agents to schedule per network. The default value is 0.

NeutronDnsDomain

Domain to use for building the hostnames. The default value is openstacklocal.

NeutronEnableDVR

Enable Distributed Virtual Router.

NeutronEnableL2Pop

Enable/disable the L2 population feature in the OpenStack Networking (neutron) agents. The default value is False.

NeutronFirewallDriver

Firewall driver for realizing OpenStack Networking (neutron) security group function. The default value is iptables_hybrid.

NeutronFlatNetworks

Sets the flat network name to configure in plugins. The default value is datacentre.

NeutronGeneveMaxHeaderSize

Geneve encapsulation header size. The default value is 38.

NeutronGlobalPhysnetMtu

MTU of the underlying physical network. OpenStack Networking (neutron) uses this value to calculate MTU for all virtual network components. For flat and VLAN networks, OpenStack Networking uses this value without modification. For overlay networks such as VXLAN, OpenStack Networking automatically subtracts the overlay protocol overhead from this value. The default value is 0.

NeutronLinuxbridgeFirewallDriver

Configure the classname of the firewall driver to use for implementing security groups. Possible values depend on system configuration. The default value of an empty string will result in a default supported configuration.

NeutronML2PhysicalNetworkMtus

A list of mappings of physical networks to MTU values. The format of the mapping is <physnet>:<mtu val>. This mapping allows you to specify a physical network MTU value that differs from the default segment_mtu value in ML2 plugin and overwrites values from global_physnet_mtu for the selected network.

NeutronMechanismDrivers

The mechanism drivers for the OpenStack Networking (neutron) tenant network. The default value is ovn.

NeutronMetadataProxySharedSecret

Shared secret to prevent spoofing.

NeutronNetworkType

The tenant network type for OpenStack Networking (neutron). The default value is geneve.

NeutronNetworkVLANRanges

The OpenStack Networking (neutron) ML2 and Open vSwitch VLAN mapping range to support. Defaults to permitting any VLAN on the datacentre physical network (See NeutronBridgeMappings). The default value is datacentre:1:1000.

NeutronOverlayIPVersion

IP version used for all overlay network endpoints. The default value is 4.

NeutronOvsIntegrationBridge

Name of Open vSwitch bridge to use.

NeutronPassword

The password for the OpenStack Networking (neutron) service and database account.

NeutronPluginExtensions

Comma-separated list of enabled extension plugins. The default value is qos,port_security.

NeutronPluginMl2PuppetTags

Puppet resource tag names that are used to generate configuration files with puppet. The default value is neutron_plugin_ml2.

NeutronPortQuota

Number of ports allowed per tenant, and minus means unlimited. The default value is 500.

NeutronRpcWorkers

Sets the number of RPC workers for the OpenStack Networking (neutron) service. If not specified, it’ll take the value of NeutronWorkers and if this is not specified either, the default value results in the configuration being left unset and a system-dependent default will be chosen (usually 1).

NeutronServicePlugins

Comma-separated list of service plugin entrypoints. The default value is qos,ovn-router,trunk.

NeutronSriovAgentExtensions

Comma-separated list of extensions enabled for the Neutron SR-IOV agents.

NeutronTunnelIdRanges

Comma-separated list of <tun_min>:<tun_max> tuples enumerating ranges of GRE tunnel IDs that are available for tenant network allocation. The default value is ['1:4094'].

NeutronTunnelTypes

The tunnel types for the OpenStack Networking (neutron) tenant network. The default value is vxlan.

NeutronTypeDrivers

Comma-separated list of network type driver entrypoints to be loaded. The default value is geneve,vlan,flat.

NeutronVhostuserSocketDir

The vhost-user socket directory for OVS.

NeutronVniRanges

Comma-separated list of <vni_min>:<vni_max> tuples enumerating ranges of VXLAN VNI IDs that are available for tenant network allocation. The default value is ['1:65536'].

NeutronWorkers

Sets the number of API and RPC workers for the OpenStack Networking service. Note that more workers creates a larger number of processes on systems, which results in excess memory consumption. It is recommended to choose a suitable non-default value on systems with high CPU core counts. 0 sets to the OpenStack internal default, which is equal to the number of CPU cores on the node.

NotificationDriver

Driver or drivers to handle sending notifications. The default value is messagingv2.

OVNCMSOptions

The CMS options to configure in ovs db.

OVNDbConnectionTimeout

Timeout in seconds for the OVSDB connection transaction. The default value is 180.

OVNDnsServers

List of servers to use as as dns forwarders.

OVNEnableHaproxyDockerWrapper

Generate a wrapper script so that haproxy is launched in a separate container. The default value is True.

OVNIntegrationBridge

Name of the OVS bridge to use as integration bridge by OVN Controller. The default value is br-int.

OVNMetadataEnabled

Whether Metadata Service has to be enabled. The default value is True.

OVNNeutronSyncMode

The synchronization mode of OVN with OpenStack Networking (neutron) DB. The default value is log.

OVNNorthboundServerPort

Port of the OVN Northbound DB server. The default value is 6641.

OVNOpenflowProbeInterval

The inactivity probe interval of the OpenFlow connection to the OpenvSwitch integration bridge, in seconds. The default value is 60.

OVNQosDriver

OVN notification driver for OpenStack Networking (neutron) QOS service plugin. The default value is ovn-qos.

OVNRemoteProbeInterval

Probe interval in ms. The default value is 60000.

OVNSouthboundServerPort

Port of the OVN Southbound DB server. The default value is 6642.

OVNVifType

Type of VIF to be used for ports. The default value is ovs.

OvsHwOffload

Enable OVS Hardware Offload. This feature supported from OVS 2.8.0. The default value is False.

PhysicalInterfaceMapping

List of <physical_network>:<physical_interface> tuples mapping physical network names to agent’s node-specific physical network interfaces. Defaults to empty list.

TenantNetPhysnetMtu

MTU of the underlying physical network. OpenStack Networking (neutron) uses this value to calculate MTU for all virtual network components. For flat and VLAN networks, OpenStack Networking (neutron) uses this value without modification. For overlay networks such as VXLAN, OpenStack Networking (neutron) automatically subtracts the overlay protocol overhead from this value. (The mtu setting of the Tenant network in network_data.yaml control’s this parameter.). The default value is 1500.