Comment 10 for bug 1502356

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Mohammed Naser (mnaser) wrote : Re: [Bug 1502356] Re: max_fixed_ips_per_port appears to be unnecessary

Hello,

We do allow customers to add more IPs to their ports (as well as using the
add-fixed-up feature in Nova).

They indeed can get new IPs on the public network (and potentially choose
them as per the API)

Thanks
M

On Thursday, 10 March 2016, Kevin Benton <email address hidden> wrote:

> @Mohammed, do you allow the customers to specify their own IP addresses
> on the public network?
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> Title:
> max_fixed_ips_per_port appears to be unnecessary
>
> Status in neutron:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> The option max_fixed_ips_per_port was introduced under the idea of
> preventing users from eating up IP addresses on shared networks that
> they don't own. However, we already prevent users from updating the
> fixed_ips of their port on networks that they don't own.[1]
>
> Unless there is a use case for this option that I am missing, we
> should just deprecate this option. Please provide use cases if you
> think otherwise.
>
>
> 1.
> https://github.com/openstack/neutron/blob/82866276b0cf7a10cbb9f5e92a12680b096a3770/etc/policy.json#L78
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