<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">(Also asked at </span><a href="https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/4718/security-groups-with-ovs-instead-of-iptables/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/4718/security-groups-with-ovs-instead-of-iptables/</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">)</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><div>The only security group implementations in neutron seem to be iptables-based. Is it technically possible to implement security groups using openvswitch flow rules, instead of iptables rules?</div>
<div><br></div><div>It seems like this would cut down on the complexity associated with the current OVSHybridIptablesFirewallDriver implementation, where we need to create an extra linux bridge and veth pair to work around the iptables-openvswitch issues. (This also breaks if the user happens to install the openvswitch brcompat module).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Lorin</div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Lorin Hochstein<br><div>Lead Architect - Cloud Services</div><div>Nimbis Services, Inc.</div><div><a href="http://www.nimbisservices.com" target="_blank">www.nimbisservices.com</a></div>
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