[openstack-dev] Reg : Security groups implementation using openflows in quantum ovs plugin

Zang MingJie zealot0630 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 29 12:11:27 UTC 2013


On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Jian Wen <jian.wen at canonical.com> wrote:
> I don't think we can implement a stateful firewall[1] now.

I don't think we need a stateful firewall, a stateless one should work
well. If the stateful conntrack is completed in the future, we can
also take benefit from it.

>
> Once connection tracking capability[2] is added to the Linux OVS, we
> could start to implement the ovs-firewall-driver blueprint.
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateful_firewall
> [2]
> http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Development_Projects#Add_connection_tracking_capability_to_the_Linux_OVS
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Mike Wilson <geekinutah at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Adding Jun to this thread since gmail is failing him.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Amir Sadoughi
>> <amir.sadoughi at rackspace.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, my work has been on ML2 with neutron-openvswitch-agent.  I’m
>>> interested to see what Jun Park has. I might have something ready before he
>>> is available again, but would like to collaborate regardless.
>>>
>>> Amir
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 19, 2013, at 3:31 AM, Kanthi P <pavuluri.kanthi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the response!
>>> Amir,Mike: Is your implementation being done according to ML2 plugin
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Kanthi
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Mike Wilson <geekinutah at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Kanthi,
>>>>
>>>> Just to reiterate what Kyle said, we do have an internal implementation
>>>> using flows that looks very similar to security groups. Jun Park was the guy
>>>> that wrote this and is looking to get it upstreamed. I think he'll be back
>>>> in the office late next week. I'll point him to this thread when he's back.
>>>>
>>>> -Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Kyle Mestery (kmestery)
>>>> <kmestery at cisco.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 18, 2013, at 4:26 PM, Kanthi P <pavuluri.kanthi at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > Hi All,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > We are planning to implement quantum security groups using openflows
>>>>> > for ovs plugin instead of iptables which is the case now.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Doing so we can avoid the extra linux bridge which is connected
>>>>> > between the vnet device and the ovs bridge, which is given as a work around
>>>>> > since ovs bridge is not compatible with iptables.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > We are planning to create a blueprint and work on it. Could you
>>>>> > please share your views on this
>>>>> >
>>>>> Hi Kanthi:
>>>>>
>>>>> Overall, this idea is interesting and removing those extra bridges
>>>>> would certainly be nice. Some people at Bluehost gave a talk at the Summit
>>>>> [1] in which they explained they have done something similar, you may want
>>>>> to reach out to them since they have code for this internally already.
>>>>>
>>>>> The OVS plugin is in feature freeze during Icehouse, and will be
>>>>> deprecated in favor of ML2 [2] at the end of Icehouse. I would advise you to
>>>>> retarget your work at ML2 when running with the OVS agent instead. The
>>>>> Neutron team will not accept new features into the OVS plugin anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Kyle
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]
>>>>> http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-hong-kong-2013/session-videos/presentation/towards-truly-open-and-commoditized-software-defined-networks-in-openstack
>>>>> [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/ML2
>>>>>
>>>>> > Thanks,
>>>>> > Kanthi
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