[ovs-dev] [PATCH] vtep: add ACLs to VTEP schema
Gurucharan Shetty
shettyg at nicira.com
Thu Sep 10 22:20:43 UTC 2015
One point that I would like to bring to attention is that vtep-ctl no
longer matches VTEP schema (even without this patch).
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 25, 2015, at 1:03 PM, Bruce Davie <bdavie at nicira.com> wrote:
>>
>> diff --git a/vtep/vtep.xml b/vtep/vtep.xml
>> index ff8d0fe..a554dcf 100644
>> --- a/vtep/vtep.xml
>> +++ b/vtep/vtep.xml
>> @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@
>> <group title="BFD Local Configuration">
>> <p>
>> The HSC writes the key-value pairs in the
>> - <ref column="bfd_config_local"/> column to specifiy the local
>> + <ref column="bfd_config_local"/> column to specify the local
>
> There are a few typo fixes in this patch. Normally, with a big change like this patch, I wouldn't roll those in. The main reason is that if the patch gets reverted at some point, these fixes would be lost, too. It's probably not worth re-spinning this patch, but thought I'd mention it.
>
>> + <column name="acl_bindings">
>> + <p>
>> + Attach Access Control Lists (ACLs) to the physical port. The
>> + column consists of a map of VLAN tags to <ref table="ACL"/>s. If the value of
>> + the VLAN tag in the map is 0, this means that the ACL is
>> + associated with the entire physical port. Non-zero values mean
>> + that the ACL is to be applied only on packets carrying that VLAN
>> + tag value. Switches will not necessarily support matching on the
>> + VLAN tag for all ACLs, and unsupported ACL bindings will cause
>> + errors to be reported.
>> + </p>
>
> This isn't related to this patch, but I didn't see what happens when "vlan_bindings" or "vlan_stats" uses a key of 0.
>
>> @@ -851,6 +870,15 @@
>> One or more static routes, mapping IP prefixes to next hop IP addresses.
>> </column>
>>
>> + <column name="acl_binding">
>> + Maps ACLs to logical router interfaces. The router interfaces
>> + are indicated using IP address notation, and must be the same
>> + interfaces created in the <ref column="switch_binding"/>
>> + column. For example, an ACL could be associated with the logical
>> + router interface with an address of 192.68.1.1 as defined in the
>> + example above.
>> + </column>
>
> The Physical_Port table has an "invalid_ACL_binding" error. Do you think it's worth adding one to the Logical_Router table, too?
>
>> + <table name="ACL_entry">
>> + <p>
>> + Describes the individual entries that comprise an Access Control List.
>> + </p>
>> + <p>
>> + Each entry in the table is a single rule to match on certain
>> + header fields. While there are a large number of fields that can
>> + be matched on, most hardware cannot match on arbitrary
>> + combinations of fields. It is common to match on either L2
>> + fields (described below in the L2 group of columns) or L3/L4 fields
>> + (the L3/L4 group of columns) but not both. The hardware switch
>> + controller may log an error if an ACL entry requires it to match
>> + on an incompatible mixture of fields.
>
> Do you think it's worth mentioning that all packets are allowed by default?
>
>> + <column name="sequence">
>> + <p>
>> + The sequence number for the ACL entry for the purpose of
>> + ordering entries in an ACL.
>
> I think it would be helpful to indicate whether a larger number is more likely to hit or less likely.
>
>> + </column>
>> + <column name="ethertype">
>> + <p>
>> + Ethertype in hexadecimal, in the form
>> + <var>0xAAA</var>
>
> This is very minor, but I think it may be clearer with a fourth "A".
>
>> + <column name="source_port_min">
>> + <p>
>> + Lower end of the range of source port values.
>> + </p>
>> + </column>
>> + <column name="source_port_max">
>> + <p>
>> + Upper end of the range of source port values.
>> + </p>
>> + </column>
>> + <column name="dest_port_min">
>> + <p>
>> + Lower end of the range of destination port values.
>> + </p>
>> + </column>
>> + <column name="dest_port_max">
>> + <p>
>> + Upper end of the range of destination port values.
>> + </p>
>
> For all of these, it would be good to indicate if the chosen value is included. (I assume it is.)
>
>> + <column name="tcp_flags">
>> + <p>
>> + Integer representing the value of TCP flags to match.
>> + </p>
>> + </column>
>> + <column name="tcp_flags_mask">
>> + <p>
>> + Integer representing the mask to apply when matching TCP flags.
>> + </p>
>
> It might be nice to include an example for "tcp_flags" and its mask.
>
> Otherwise, it looks good.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Justin
>
>
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