Learning OpenStack Networking - Third Edition

Creating a flat network in the CLI

If you recall from previous chapters, a flat network is a network in which no 802.1q tagging takes place.

The syntax to create a flat network can be seen here:

openstack network create--provider-network-type flat--provider-physical-network <provider-physical-network><name> 

The following is an example of using the OpenStack client to create a flat network by the name of MyFlatNetwork. The network will utilize an interface or bridge represented by the label physnet1 and will be shared among all projects:

In the preceding output, the project ID corresponds to the admin project where the user who executed the ...