API Overview

APIs provided by the EIP service include native OpenStack APIs and EIP APIs.

A combination of these two types of APIs allows you to use all functions provided by the EIP service.

**Table 1** EIP APIs
Type	Subtype	Description
EIP API	EIP	APIs for assigning, querying, updating, and releasing EIPs
EIP API	Floating IP address (IPv6)	APIs for assigning, querying, updating, and releasing IPv6 floating IP addresses
EIP API	Bandwidth	APIs for querying and updating bandwidth
EIP API	Bandwidth (v2.0)	APIs for assigning and deleting shared bandwidth APIs for adding an EIP to or removing an EIP from a shared bandwidth
EIP API	Quota	API for querying quota values
OpenStack Neutron API	Floating IP address	APIs for assigning, querying, updating, and releasing floating IP addresses
OpenStack Neutron API	API version	APIs for querying all available API versions and displaying the results in pages.
EIP v3 API	EIP (v3)	APIs for binding and unbinding EIPs.