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Improve firewall recommendations for Neutron documentation

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The documention does not mention that either ufw or firewalld should be
disabled to operate a devstack+Neutron environment.  This change adds a
description of fault symptoms as well as a simple workaround.

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Steven Dake 2014-12-31 14:27:22 -07:00
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Disabling Next Generation Firewall Tools
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Devstack does not properly operate with modern firewall tools. Specifically
it will appear as if the guest VM can access the external network via ICMP,
but UDP and TCP packets will not be delivered to the guest VM. The root cause
of the issue is that both ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) and firewalld (Fedora's
firewall manager) apply firewall rules to all interfaces in the system, rather
then per-device. One solution to this problem is to revert to iptables
functionality.
To get a functional firewall configuration for Fedora do the following:
::
sudo service iptables save
sudo systemctl disable firewalld
sudo systemctl enable iptables
sudo systemctl stop firewalld
sudo systemctl start iptables
To get a functional firewall configuration for distributions containing ufw,
disable ufw. Note ufw is generally not enabled by default in Ubuntu. To
disable ufw if it was enabled, do the following:
::
sudo service iptables save
sudo ufw disable
Neutron Networking with Open vSwitch
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