understood. I assume this is the documented (in a FS or some such design
doc) behavior, correct? Thanks for the prompt reply Jaypal!


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Jayapal Reddy Uradi <
jayapalreddy.ur...@citrix.com> wrote:

> For the createFirewallRule and createEgressFirewallRule APIs the port
> parameters are optional.
> If you don't specify the port range for the prototocol (TCP) it allows all
> the tcp traffic.
>
> Ingress:
> 1.  First firewall rules filters traffic  then PF/Static NAT will NAT to
> the specific VM.
> If you specify tcp with out ports all tcp traffic on IP is allowed then
> PF/Static NAT  rule (PF ports) decides to which
> VM the traffic should be NATed.
>
> Egress:
> Traffic from guest network to public network is filtered by egress.
> If you specify the tcp with out ports all egress tcp traffic is allowed.
>
> Thanks,
> Jayapal
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: williamstev...@gmail.com [mailto:williamstev...@gmail.com] On
> > Behalf Of Will Stevens
> > Sent: Wednesday, 15 May 2013 12:19 AM
> > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org; aemne...@gmail.com
> > Subject: Re: Firewall rule question
> >
> > Ya, I am not sure.  I am working off a master branch from about 2-3 weeks
> > ago.  I was kind of expecting it to error and it didn't, so it was not
> clear how
> > that case would behave.  I am currently developing an integration with
> the
> > Palo Alto firewall and they don't support specifying a protocol like TCP
> > without any port information.  I still have to finalize the logic
> associated with
> > that edge case, so I wanted to understand what the expected behaviour was
> > from that config.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Ahmad Emneina <aemne...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I'm hoping thats not the default behavior, and nothing happens on the
> > > firewall. I guess the fact that empty values entered returns success
> > > is a bug?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Will Stevens <wstev...@cloudops.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > This applies to both Egress firewall rules as well as IP specific
> > > firewall
> > > > rules.
> > > >
> > > > If you specify TCP but do not specify any port details, it saves
> > > > fine.  I am wondering what this config implies.  Does this mean that
> > > > all TCP
> > > traffic
> > > > is allowed?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Will
> > > >
> > >
>

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