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Hi Nachi,

I see these are 2 very different use cases:

[1] is the VPN to support remote access users to connect to the Openstack
networks.  This would allow roaming users to connect with security policy
defined by Openstack admin, without user intervene.

[2] IPsec is used for site-to-site connection, a must for Amazon VPC type
deployment.  If Openstack networks are set up in the cloud for enterprise
tenants, this would provide secure connectivities between Openstack
networks and enterprise networks.  Security policies are agreed and
configured by both sides.  (In Amazon VPC, it can generate security policy
for some firewall vendors to import into the firewall of enterprise
networks to reduce the configuration complexity).  IPsec could be used for
remote access as well (through Xauth or IKEv2) but it's not as simple as
[1].  AFAIK, few companies deploy IPsec for remote access.

As [1] has been used in Nova while [2] is still new in Quantum, I vote for
[1] so current users have a mechanism to connect to Openstack network to
manage or share the resources.  Besides, IPsec alone may not be enough for
VPC deployment, as most likely it needs dynamic routing support to detect
the tunnel liveness.

Michael



On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Nachi Ueno <nachi at ntti3.com> wrote:

> Hi folks
>
> I would like to ask your opinions.
> [1] Nova parity VPN (Cloudpipe) is OpenStack Networking VPN first step.
> Amazon VPC compatible api(*) is also great candidate to start.
> And it is using IPSec.
> The IPSec has more widely used than SSL-VPN in industry.
> so, How about start with IPSec?
>
> Currently, Cloudpipe is using SSL-VPN, However, Cloudpipe was intended to
> let users to access to the VLAN, so I tend to think any VPN method is
> OK if we can
> accomplish it.
>
> so if you want to start with SSL-VPN, please let us know.
> In that case, we will start with SSL-VPN.
>
> (*) may be not fully same API, but similer model
>
> [2] Generic VPN Service model
> It looks like there is no strong opinion to have "mode" attribute on
> Generic VPN Service.
> so we would like to remove this attribute.
>
> I registered the BP for Generic VPN service here.
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/generic-vpn-service
>
> Is this OK for you guys?
>
> Thanks
> Nachi
>
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