[ovs-discuss] openvswitch on openstack

[Gurucharan Shetty]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:55 PM, FengYu LeiDian
<fengyuleidian0615 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> Standard openstack has a Linux bridge on top of openvswitch bridge[1]
> this Linux bridge is used to setup iptables rule to allow VM access
> to the outside world, for example, allow VM port 22 access, so external
> host could ssh to this VM.
>
> Can openvswitch bridge has the same mechanism to be allowed to set rules
> as the same effort as that of iptables linux bridge?
Yes. The controller that you use should be capable of adding openflow
rules to do it.

>
>
> Thanks
>
> [1]:
> http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide-cloud/content/figures/14/a/a/common/figures/under-the-hood-scenario-1-ovs-compute.png
>
>
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