[ale] VM for WAN connection?

[James Taylor]

FWIW, I've been running my firewall server as a VM in a clustered host environment of one type or another for some time. I use two virtual networks on the firewall, each tied to a separate physical NIC on the hosts.
I pass through the public address through the physical public NIC, with no address bound on the host. The private NIC is tied to the physical NIC on the private network. No direct access to the net from the host.
Works for me, and I have fault tolerance and unlimited host maintenance windows.
-jt

 

James Taylor
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com



>>> James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> 9/26/2015 12:02 PM >>> 
Finally got the motherboard in for my home router project. While thinking
about how I want to do it, I had a thought about the connection to my ISP.
I'm wondering if it is worth it to isolate that connection in a VM? The VM
would still be hosted on the "router" system, and the traffic would still
have to be routed back to the host OS.

Any opinions? Sound plan or redundant overkill?


-- 
James Sumners
http://james.sumners.info/ (technical profile)
http://jrfom.com/ (personal site)
http://haplo.bandcamp.com/ (band page)


If this is an unsolicited spam message, please click this link to report it: http://control.eastcobbgroup.com:49285/contents/spamreport.shtml?rptid=77788&srvid=16vl15t