Need Advice on Routers

[Matthew A Coulliette]

I am currently building a smoothwall router out of an old pc. Smoothwall
is a great piece of software.  I have 8 computers so turning an old one
into a router didn't bother me. It has a web interface for
administration, and can be set up with up to 4 zones: red - www, orange
- DMZ (web server), purple - wireless, and green - LAN. For most people
I would say that this option is more hassle than it's worth, but for
myself it is just what I was looking for. - MatthewMPP


Technomage wrote:
> Alex,
> yes, you can (U have done so in real time here). Also, you can isolate 
> that firewall bridge from every other VM on the
> host without much difficulty (thus preventing one of the scenarios that 
> would develop should you misconfigure the
> internal bridge).
>
> also, to put this in some perspective, me and a friend were doing this 
> level of Virtual Machine work long before
> any of the white papers were ever written. He's the one that clued me in 
> to how this was done and we both ended up
> doing a live running test under vmware server for Linux at the time.
>
>
> Alex Dean wrote:
>   
>> On Apr 27, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Mark,
>>>
>>> I have a couple old e-machines that I made into IPCop firewall/routers,
>>> and have been decommissioned for a while (they were virtualized).
>>>       
>> Do you mean you virtualized your firewall?  Doesn't that create a risk 
>> that other VMs on the same hardware host might be exposed to nasty 
>> stuff which arrives at the firewall?  I'm recalling Austin's talk on 
>> VMs & security from a year or two ago.
>>
>> If I've misunderstood your statement, please disregard.
>>
>> alex
>>     
>
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