On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Lori Jakab <loja...@cisco.com> wrote:

> On 04/13/2013 12:53 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 01:50:43PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> >> Till now, by default, we add firewall holes for
> >> gre traffic. There may be users that do not use gre tunnels
> >> and they may be surprised with this behavior.
> >
> > It would be nice to add a sentence or a paragraph mentioning why we
> > leave the hole for XenServer.
> >
> > These two patches seem OK to me--I think this is a better approach
> > overall--but I think it would be nice to complete our conversation
> > with Lorand in the thread for the patch he posted, and try to reach
> > consensus, before we apply them.
>
> I also lean towards keeping the ports closed by default, but I'm pretty
> sure there will be several users bitten by this.  Perhaps we can add a
> paragraph to INSTALL.RHEL and INSTALL.XenServer (and the FAQ?) about
> some tunnel ports needing holes in the firewall, and how to "properly"
> configure OVS so the necessary ports are opened automatically on system
> and OVS restart (and closed on OVS stop).
>

Thanks, I think we are all on the same page then. I will send in a patch
for the
documentation update.


>
> -Lori
>
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