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

Tapio Tallgren tapiotallgren at gmail.com
Tue Nov 24 10:55:07 UTC 2015


Thanks! I got it now: OpenStack already allows all "related" connections,
and you need connection tracking for that. This was not very clear to me
from the documentation...

-Tapio

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:14 PM Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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> Russell Bryant
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