Router management in the CLI

Neutron offers a number of commands that can be used to create and manage routers. The primary commands associated with router management include:

• router-create

• router-delete

• router-gateway-clear

• router-gateway-set

• router-interface-add

• router-interface-delete

• router-list

• router-list-on-l3-agent

• router-port-list

• router-show

• router-update

Creating routers in the CLI

Routers in Neutron are associated with tenants and are available for use only by users within the tenant that created them. As an administrator, you can create routers on behalf of tenants during the creation process.

To create a router, use the router-create command as follows:

Syntax: router-create [--tenant-id TENANT_ID]
[--admin-state-down] NAME

Working with router interfaces in the CLI

Neutron routers have two types of interfaces: gateway and internal. The gateway interface of a Neutron router is analogous to the WAN interface of a hardware router. It is the interface connected to an upstream...