| Casey Bralla on 12 Apr 2013 20:13:56 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Embedded 3-Port Firwall? |
I've been leary of running a firewall in a virtual machine since I'm afraid the bad guys might be able to "jump" from one VM to another. OK, I know that's silly, but it always seemed "cleaner" to me to have the firewall as a physically separate machine from my regular servers. Obviously, you've had no problems though, so I guess I'll reconsider that prejudice. On Friday, April 12, 2013 11:20:55 PM Lee H. Marzke wrote: > I now run pfSense firewall as a VM in my ESXi server, so my power > for that box went down to zero! I'm also routing IPv6 traffic > to my website through pfSense. (4aero.com) > > The same ESXi server also runs a ZFS SAN for the VM's and a bunch of Linux > VM's, including a plone server, Mailman mailservers, Zimbra test server, > VMware VIEW demo, etc. I hope to do a presentation on this setup sometime. > > I did keep the old physical linux router box around just in case of any > bootstrap problems. > > Lee > Casey Bralla Chief Nerd in Residence The NerdWorld Organisation http://www.NerdWorld.org ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug