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FWaaS developers at the summit (German and Sridar), i decided to write here also, maybe someone has an idea. I am trying to integrate a hardware firewall to our
Openstack environment. It is a custom hardware
running BSD on it and has a REST API for configuring. I talked with
Sridar, he gave me the brief understanding of how FWaaS driver is
working.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Either i will be
hacking the community driver and calling the REST API or writing the
driver and calling the REST API there. The problem is, we couldn't
figured it out how will the hardware firewall be working.
Assuming that, it will not be routing traffic, just filtering, and that
we will be using virtual routers of Openstack, do you have a reference
architecture for such a case? It seems everyone has its own way of using
firewall appliances in OpenStack. All i
need is to create a firewall but instead of using Iptables, i want to
use the hardware firewall and be able to define filtering rules.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">FWaaS guys said that
there will be API changes in the future so at Mitaka, it seems the way
of FWaaS will be changing and there are some plans about merging FWaaS
and security groups.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">I am now using Kilo, the solution also will be working at Liberty also. Will be great if you give some guidance.
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Regards.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Oğuz Yarımtepe<br><a href="http://about.me/oguzy" target="_blank">http://about.me/oguzy</a></div>
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