Aha!!! Thanks for informing me about that George! So one solution would be to switch to Neutron which is something that can't be done right now because I definitely need the auto-assignment of floating IPs which hasn't been implemented yet. Any other ideas on how to achieve it? Could a pfSense firewall be the solution to the problem? Regards, G. > The egress filtering is only available with Neutron (Icehouse > included). > On 5 Jan 2015 07:57, "Georgios Dimitrakakis" wrote: > >> Hi George! >> >> Do I have to configure egress traffic through CLI and how? My >> understanding is that from Dashboard everything is for ingress >> traffic only. Do I miss something? >> >> I am on Icehouse release using nova (legacy) networking. >> >> Best, >> >> G. >> >>> Hi Georgios, >>> >>> The security groups allow for ingress and egress filtering, so >>> you >>> should be good to go. >>> >>> George >>> On 5 Jan 2015 07:26, "Georgios Dimitrakakis" wrote: >>> >>>> First of all I d like to wish to each and everyone of you happy >>>> new >>>> year! >>>> >>>> Then I d like to know if there is a way to control the outbound >>>> (egress) traffic directly from within Openstack >>>> for a group of VMs rather than modifying the iptables for each >>>> one >>>> of them. >>>> >>>> It would be great if there is a way to group the VMs on a >>>> "security" group (like the way its done for the inbound traffic >>>> on >>>> security groups). >>>> >>>> If not is there any other way to achieve this? I am thinking of >>>> setting up a pfSense firewall and pass all traffic from there. >>>> Would >>>> that work? Any other ideas/suggestions?? >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> George >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: >>>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack >>>> [1] [1] >>>> Post to : openstack at lists.openstack.org [2] [2] >>>> Unsubscribe : >>>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack >>>> [3] [3] >>> >>> Links: >>> ------ >>> [1] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack >>> [4] >>> [2] mailto:openstack at lists.openstack.org [5] >>> [3] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack >>> [6] >>> [4] mailto:giorgis at acmac.uoc.gr [7] > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > [2] mailto:openstack at lists.openstack.org > [3] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > [4] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > [5] mailto:openstack at lists.openstack.org > [6] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > [7] mailto:giorgis at acmac.uoc.gr > [8] mailto:giorgis at acmac.uoc.gr