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Merge "Add note for openflow firewall"

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@ -110,6 +110,14 @@ conntrack first with an ``action=ct()`` rule. An accepted flow means that
ingress packets for the connection are directly sent to the port, and egress
packets are left to be normally switched by the integration bridge.
.. note::
There is a new config option ``explicitly_egress_direct``, if it is set
to True, it will direct egress unicast traffic to local port directly
or to patch bridge port if destination is in remote host. So there is
no NORMAL for egress in such scenario. This option is used to overcome
the egress packet flooding when openflow firewall is enabled.
Connections that are not matched by the above rules are sent to either the
ingress or egress filtering table, depending on its direction. The reason the
rules are based on security group rules in separate tables is to make it easy
@ -197,6 +205,9 @@ the second security group. Ports have following attributes:
- can receive IP packets from security group 3
- allowed address pair: 10.1.0.0/24, fa:16:3e:8c:84:14
Port 3
- patch bridge port (e.g. patch-tun) in OVS bridge
|table_0| contains a low priority rule to continue packets processing in
|table_60| aka TRANSIENT table. |table_0| is left for use to other
features that take precedence over firewall, e.g. DVR. The only requirement is
@ -495,6 +506,23 @@ same as in |table_72|.
migrated to a port on a different node, then the new port won't contain
conntrack information about previous traffic that happened with VIP.
By default the |table_94| will have one single flow like this:
::
table=94, priority=1 actions=NORMAL
If ``explicitly_egress_direct`` is set to True, flows of |table_94|
will be:
::
table=94, priority=12,reg6=0x284,dl_dst=fa:16:3e:a4:22:10 actions=output:1
table=94, priority=12,reg6=0x284,dl_dst=fa:16:3e:24:57:c7 actions=output:2
table=94, priority=10,reg6=0x284,dl_src=fa:16:3e:a4:22:10,dl_dst=00:00:00:00:00:00/01:00:00:00:00:00 actions=push_vlan:0x8100,set_field:0x1->vlan_vid,output:3
table=94, priority=10,reg6=0x284,dl_src=fa:16:3e:24:57:c7,dl_dst=00:00:00:00:00:00/01:00:00:00:00:00 actions=push_vlan:0x8100,set_field:0x1->vlan_vid,output:3
table=94, priority=1 actions=NORMAL
OVS firewall integration points
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