Multiple Gateways 3.3 Feature

[Livnat Peer]

On 05/29/2013 06:26 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 04:52:00PM +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
>> Hi Assaf,
>>
>> On 05/27/2013 09:11 AM, Assaf Muller wrote:
>>> The multiple gateways feature is planned for 3.3.
>>>
>>> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Multiple_Gateways
>>
>> It's really late in the cycle to start work on a feature targeting 3.3 -
>> can you explain why this feature is such a high priority, please?
> 
> We had multiple users requesting the ability to set the gateway of
> display networks. Without it, spice/vnc clients cannot sit outside of
> the ovirt network, which kinda hampers the whole point of spice, being a
> really-remote desktop protocol.
> 
> People are hacking initscripts' route-* and rule-* files below Vdsm's
> feet to enable this. That's not healthy. This feature is all about
> automating this, and allowing it to inegrate with dynamic addresses
> properly.
> 
>>
>> Also, do you have some idea when it might be release ready?
> 
> The stated date 2013-06-09 of beta readiness is a bit agressive, but I
> am confident that this feature would be ready for the now-postponed date
> of ovirt-3.3 (check point at 2013-06-15).
> 
> Nonetheless, we do need proper review and discussion of the suggested
> feature. If something nasty pops up during the review, I would have to
> reconsider.

In addition to the above I would like to add that we started working on
this proposal a few weeks ago, we encountered a lot of technical
difficulties and it took us relatively long time to build the proposal
for implementing this feature.


> 
> Dan.
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