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@@ -59,6 +59,40 @@ connectivity.
 
 
 
+Disabling Next Generation Firewall Tools
+========================================
+
+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
 ====================================