On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Hugo Trippaers
<htrippa...@schubergphilis.com> wrote:
> By the way, we might want to add the same configuration to vmops for 
> XenServer.
>
> Currently it is possible to have a tenant vm send a router advertisement on 
> the isolated lan that is picked up by XenServer. Even though XenServer only 
> has a bridge interface in the tenant lan that interface will be 
> autoconfigured. A simple ping to the local all-node address (ff02::1) will 
> tell you the mac off of the XenServer interface. As XenServer has ssh active 
> on all interfaces you can directly connect to the ssh daemon on the 
> XenServer. We only push a IPv4 firewall to the XenServer so the IPv6 firewall 
> is default (ACCEPT everything).
>
> Still you only gain access to the ssh port, but that is something that should 
> not be possible from a tenant lan.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hugo

As a provider, this one is even more concerning.  Unless someone has
an objection, I'd agree with your solution.  We can remove a DENY rule
in the future, after IPv6 support is added properly / completely.

If you want help working up the fix for this, please let me know!

-chip

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