[ale] VMWare and Firewall

Robert L. Harris Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net
Mon Jun 4 15:13:00 EDT 2007



That's a problem as some of the VM's are windows boxes and we don't want to trust
them to protect themselves.


Thus spake Jim Popovitch (yahoo at jimpop.com):

> On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 15:01 -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > 
> >   It is bridged.  I'm running the firewall on the host OS.  So I would need
> > to apply it to "vmnet1" or "vmnet8" ?  running tcpdump on these interfaces
> > doesn't show any traffic.
> 
> You need to add iptables rules inside each virtual machine.  The host
> can not protect the bridged interface.
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
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