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.. _config-ovsfwdriver:
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Native Open vSwitch firewall driver
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.. note::
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Experimental feature or incomplete documentation.
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Historically, Open vSwitch (OVS) could not interact directly with *iptables*
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to implement security groups. Thus, the OVS agent and Compute service use
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a Linux bridge between each instance (VM) and the OVS integration bridge
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``br-int`` to implement security groups. The Linux bridge device contains
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the *iptables* rules pertaining to the instance. In general, additional
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components between instances and physical network infrastructure cause
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scalability and performance problems. To alleviate such problems, the OVS
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agent includes an optional firewall driver that natively implements security
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groups as flows in OVS rather than the Linux bridge device and *iptables*.
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This increases scalability and performance.
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Configuring heterogeneous firewall drivers
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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L2 agents can be configured to use differing firewall drivers. There is no
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requirement that they all be the same. If an agent lacks a firewall driver
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configuration, it will default to what is configured on its server. This also
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means there is no requirement that the server has any firewall driver
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configured at all, as long as the agents are configured correctly.
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Prerequisites
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The native OVS firewall implementation requires kernel and user space support
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for *conntrack*, thus requiring minimum versions of the Linux kernel and
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Open vSwitch. All cases require Open vSwitch version 2.5 or newer.
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* Kernel version 4.3 or newer includes *conntrack* support.
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* Kernel version 3.3, but less than 4.3, does not include *conntrack*
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support and requires building the OVS modules.
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Enable the native OVS firewall driver
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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* On nodes running the Open vSwitch agent, edit the
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``openvswitch_agent.ini`` file and enable the firewall driver.
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.. code-block:: ini
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[securitygroup]
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firewall_driver = openvswitch
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For more information, see the
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:doc:`/contributor/internals/openvswitch_firewall`
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and the `video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOHeZ3g9yxM>`_.
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