Hi Yi,


Swami will be available from this week.



Will it be possible for you to join the regular DVR Meeting (Wed 8AM PST) next 
week and we can slot that to discuss this.



I see that FwaaS is of much value for E/W traffic (which has challenges), but 
for me it looks easier to implement the same in N/S with the

current DVR architecture, but there might be less takers on that.



--

Thanks,



Vivek





From: Yi Sun [mailto:beyo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 11:50 AM
To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] DVR and FWaaS integration



The NS FW will be on a centralized node for sure. For the DVR + FWaaS solution 
is really for EW traffic. If you are interested on the topic, please propose 
your preferred meeting time and join the meeting so that we can discuss about 
it.

Yi

On 7/2/14, 7:05 PM, joehuang wrote:

   Hello,



   It’s hard to integrate DVR and FWaaS. My proposal is to split the FWaaS into 
two parts: one part is for east-west FWaaS, this part could be done on DVR 
side, and make it become distributed manner. The other part is for north-south 
part, this part could be done on Network Node side, that means work in central 
manner. After the split, north-south FWaaS could be implemented by software or 
hardware, meanwhile, east-west FWaaS is better to implemented by software with 
its distribution nature.



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   发件人: Yi Sun [mailto:beyo...@gmail.com]
   发送时间: 2014年7月3日 4:42
   收件人: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
   抄送: Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Rajeev; Gary Duan; Carl (OpenStack Neutron)
   主题: Re: [openstack-dev] DVR and FWaaS integration



   All,

   After talk to Carl and FWaaS team , Both sides suggested to call a meeting 
to discuss about this topic in deeper detail. I heard that Swami is traveling 
this week. So I guess the earliest time we can have a meeting is sometime next 
week. I will be out of town on monday, so any day after Monday should work for 
me. We can do either IRC, google hang out, GMT or even a face to face.

   For anyone interested, please propose your preferred time.

   Thanks

   Yi



   On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Carl Baldwin 
<c...@ecbaldwin.net<mailto:c...@ecbaldwin.net>> wrote:

   In line...

   On Jun 25, 2014 2:02 PM, "Yi Sun" 
<beyo...@gmail.com<mailto:beyo...@gmail.com>> wrote:
   >
   > All,
   > During last summit, we were talking about the integration issues between 
DVR and FWaaS. After the summit, I had one IRC meeting with DVR team. But after 
that meeting I was tight up with my work and did not get time to continue to 
follow up the issue. To not slow down the discussion, I'm forwarding out the 
email that I sent out as the follow up to the IRC meeting here, so that whoever 
may be interested on the topic can continue to discuss about it.
   >
   > First some background about the issue:
   > In the normal case, FW and router are running together inside the same box 
so that FW can get route and NAT information from the router component. And in 
order to have FW to function correctly, FW needs to see the both directions of 
the traffic.
   > DVR is designed in an asymmetric way that each DVR only sees one leg of 
the traffic. If we build FW on top of DVR, then FW functionality will be 
broken. We need to find a good method to have FW to work with DVR.
   >
   > ---forwarding email---
   >  During the IRC meeting, we think that we could force the traffic to the 
FW before DVR. Vivek had more detail; He thinks that since the br-int knowns 
whether a packet is routed or switched, it is possible for the br-int to 
forward traffic to FW before it forwards to DVR. The whole forwarding process 
can be operated as part of service-chain operation. And there could be a FWaaS 
driver that understands the DVR configuration to setup OVS flows on the br-int.

   I'm not sure what this solution would look like.  I'll have to get the 
details from Vivek.  It seems like this would effectively centralize the 
traffic that we worked so hard to decentralize.

   It did cause me to wonder about something:  would it be possible to reign 
the symmetry to the traffic by directing any response traffic back to the DVR 
component which handled the request traffic?  I guess this would require 
running conntrack on the target side to track and identify return traffic.  I'm 
not sure how this would be inserted into the data path yet.  This is a 
half-baked idea here.

   > The concern is that normally firewall and router are integrated together 
so that firewall can make right decision based on the routing result. But what 
we are suggesting is to split the firewall and router into two separated 
components, hence there could be issues. For example, FW will not be able to 
get enough information to setup zone. Normally Zone contains a group of 
interfaces that can be used in the firewall policy to enforce the direction of 
the policy. If we forward traffic to firewall before DVR, then we can only 
create policy based on subnets not the interface.
   > Also, I’m not sure if we have ever planed to support SNAT on the DVR, but 
if we do, then it depends on at which point we forward traffic to the FW, the 
subnet may not even work for us anymore (even DNAT could have problem too).

   I agree that splitting the firewall from routing presents some problems that 
may be difficult to overcome.  I don't know how it would be done while 
maintaining the benefits of DVR.

   Another half-baked idea:  could multi-primary state replication be used 
between DVR components to enable firewall operation?  Maybe work on the HA 
router blueprint -- which is long overdue to be merged Btw -- could be 
leveraged.  The number of DVR "pieces" could easily far exceed that of active 
firewall components normally used in such a configuration so there could be a 
major scaling problem.  I'm really just thinking out loud here.

   Maybe you (or others) have other ideas?

   > Another thing that I may have to get detail is that how we handle the 
overlap subnet, it seems that the new namespaces are required.

   Can you elaborate here?

   Carl

   >
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