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Mastering OpenStack - Second Edition
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Mastering OpenStack - Second Edition

by Omar Khedher, Chandan Dutta
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
470 pages
11h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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The external network

The features of an external or a public network are as follows:

  • It provides global connectivity and uses routable IP addressing
  • It is used by the virtual router to perform SNAT from the VM instances and provide external access to traffic originating from the VM and going to the Internet
SNAT refers to Source Network Address Translation. It allows traffic from a private network to go out to the Internet. OpenStack supports SNAT through its Neutron APIs for routers. More information can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation.
  • It is used to provide a DNAT service for traffic from the Internet to reach a service running on the VM instance
While using VLANs, by tagging networks and combining ...
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