OpenShift VXLAN communication creates many sessions in our corporate firewalls

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Issue

  • In a firewall between 2 RHOCP nodes, there are many sessions created for the UDP vxlan port (4789 by default). This is overloading our firewall.

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
  • There is a firewall between the nodes

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