Decomposing a highly available router

Using concepts demonstrated in previous chapters, let's walk through the creation and decomposition of a highly available router. In the following example, I've started out with an external provider network named GATEWAY_NET and a project network named PROJECT_NET:

Using the openstack router create command with the --ha argument, we can create an HA router named MyHighlyAvailableRouter:

Upon creation of the HA router, a network namespace was created on up to three hosts running the Neutron L3 agent. In ...

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