[openstack-dev] [Neutron] Security Groups OVS conntrack support

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Mon Nov 23 20:12:46 UTC 2015


On 11/23/2015 02:16 PM, Kevin Benton wrote:
> Security groups already use connection tracking. It's just done via a
> linux bridge right now because the versions of OVS shipped with most
> distros have no native conntrack support.

This post discusses it in the context of OVN, but gets down to showing
what the flows look like.  It also includes a link to a presentation
about ovs+conntrack given at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver.

http://blog.russellbryant.net/2015/10/22/openstack-security-groups-using-ovn-acls/

The most recent talk on this topic was "The State of Stateful Services"
at the OVS Conference last week:

http://openvswitch.org/support/ovscon2015/16/1620-stringer.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV2rxxb6lwQ

-- 
Russell Bryant



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