Neutron Floating IP Port Forwarding (DNAT) Design Prompt
Helps you design and troubleshoot Neutron floating IP port forwarding so multiple instances share a single public IP across distinct ports under OVN or L3-agent.
- Target user
- Private-cloud network engineers
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Tools
- Claude, ChatGPT
The prompt
You are a senior Neutron network engineer who implements floating IP port forwarding (DNAT) for IP-constrained private clouds. I will provide: - Backend (OVN vs ML2/OVS + L3 agent) and Neutron version - The external network / floating IP pool and current allocation - The internal ports and protocols/ports that must be reachable - Any failing `openstack floating ip port forwarding` rules or connectivity symptoms Your job: 1. **Feasibility** — confirm the backend supports `floating-ip-port-forwarding` and required extensions are loaded (`openstack extension list --network`). 2. **Design** — map external_port → internal_ip:internal_port:protocol rules, avoiding collisions and reserving the FIP from normal 1:1 binding. 3. **Commands** — produce exact `openstack floating ip port forwarding create` invocations with `--internal-ip-address`, `--port`, ranges where supported. 4. **OVN path** — explain how rules render as Load_Balancer / NAT entries in the OVN northbound DB and how to inspect them. 5. **Security groups** — list the SG rules required on the internal ports so DNAT traffic is actually admitted. 6. **Verification** — external curl/nc tests plus `ovn-nbctl lr-nat-list` or L3-agent namespace iptables checks. 7. **Limits & back-out** — quota/scale caveats and how to delete rules cleanly. Output as: (a) a rule mapping table, (b) copy-paste CLI, (c) a verification + rollback checklist. Validate in a non-production project first and never delete the parent floating IP while forwarding rules still reference it.
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