Ports for floating IP's are in state DOWN

[Gary Kotton]

Some plugins, for example OVS and linux bridge have port status as DOWN instead of ACTIVE for a active floating IP PORT

[yong sheng gong (gongysh)]

I think the floating IP port should be changed into active if it is associated with a VM port.

[yong sheng gong (gongysh)]

Bug #1192883 is related to it

[Mark McClain (markmcclain)]

Floating IPs reserve ports because that is the way to interact with Neutron's IPAM. They are not real ports which is why the port state is DOWN. I don't think this behavior should change.

[Kevin Benton (kevinbenton)]

This has come up in internal troubleshooting a couple of times now for me as well. When admin users see them all DOWN, they are assuming there is a problem...

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/122265

[Assaf Muller (amuller)]

I've encountered a lot of users on ask, mailing list and in the office that think that something is wrong when the port status is DOWN. I don't want to think of how many hours were lost because of this. I think this change is long overdue.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/122265
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/neutron/commit/?id=ca92ebdf968bef67e5259cdacce27c2cab84bd8a
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit ca92ebdf968bef67e5259cdacce27c2cab84bd8a
Author: Kevin Benton <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 16 20:36:42 2014 -0700

    Set floating IP port status to "N/A"

    The status of the port associated with a floating IP
    would always show as DOWN. This caused confusion to
    operators that weren't aware that this is expected behavior
    since the port is only used for an IP allocation.

    This commit sets the port status to "N/A" to reflect the fact
    that the port associated with a floating IP has no operational
    status.

    DocImpact
    APIImpact

    Closes-Bug: #1196851
    Change-Id: I2f94afa001b213d61f0e5892aae2e6e6de98fe4c

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: neutron-pecan
Review: https://review.openstack.org/185072