Comment 6 for bug 1144426

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dan wendlandt (danwent) wrote : Re: [Bug 1144426] Re: The name of the security group rule field "source_ip_prefix" is misleading

I tend to prefer the term "remote"

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Aaron Rosen <email address hidden> wrote:

> Same with source on source_group_ip. If you have a rule
> direction=ingress, group_id=group1 means you can receive from group1 and
> direction=egress,group_id=group1 means you can send to group1. Having
> source there is confusing as well.
>
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> Title:
> The name of the security group rule field "source_ip_prefix" is
> misleading
>
> Status in OpenStack Quantum (virtual network service):
> New
>
> Bug description:
> By the implementation, this is interpreted as source ip prefix for
> ingress rules and destination ip prefix for egress rules.
> This should be renamed to avoid confusions.
>
> Apparently, there was a discussion to rename it to remote_* (cidr or
> ip_prefix?).
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