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From: Tony Sarendal

Subject: Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?

Date: Friday, September 21, 2007 - 5:58 am

On 9/21/07, Kent Watsen <kent@watsen.net> wrote:
quoted text>
> Some commercial firewalls (i.e. Juniper/NetScreen ScreenOS-based gear)
> have been offering virtual-systems for years now.  I think the negative
> comments received here may be appropriate when sharing the system with
> non-secure guest OSs, but it seems that it might be alright if its
> nothing but firewalls

I have no detailed knowledge of those devices, but I'm pretty sure their
virtual
firewalls are not accomplished by virtualizing the OS, but by supporting
multiple routing tables and rules-sets.

Virtual and virtual may be different in reality.

/Tony

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OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Josh, (Thu Sep 20, 6:09 pm)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Jason Dixon, (Thu Sep 20, 6:35 pm)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Nick Holland, (Thu Sep 20, 6:52 pm)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, bofh, (Thu Sep 20, 6:53 pm)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Jason Dixon, (Thu Sep 20, 7:15 pm)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Darren Spruell, (Thu Sep 20, 11:18 pm)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Craig Skinner, (Fri Sep 21, 1:03 am)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Kent Watsen, (Fri Sep 21, 5:07 am)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Tony Sarendal, (Fri Sep 21, 5:58 am)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Scott Wells, (Fri Sep 21, 6:19 am)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Darren Spruell, (Fri Sep 21, 7:48 am)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Douglas A. Tutty, (Fri Sep 21, 7:52 am)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Craig Skinner, (Fri Sep 21, 8:09 am)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Luca Corti, (Fri Sep 21, 8:17 am)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, bofh, (Fri Sep 21, 12:29 pm)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Stuart Henderson, (Fri Sep 21, 12:51 pm)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Ted Unangst, (Fri Sep 21, 1:28 pm)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Luca Corti, (Fri Sep 21, 2:15 pm)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Luca Corti, (Fri Sep 21, 2:16 pm)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Claudio Jeker, (Fri Sep 21, 3:34 pm)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Bryan Irvine, (Fri Sep 21, 4:09 pm)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Tony Sarendal, (Fri Sep 21, 4:10 pm)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Luca Corti, (Fri Sep 21, 5:06 pm)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, user, (Fri Sep 21, 8:12 pm)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Douglas A. Tutty, (Fri Sep 21, 9:36 pm)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Henning Brauer, (Sat Sep 22, 4:29 am)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Nick Holland, (Sat Sep 22, 7:53 am)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, Douglas A. Tutty, (Sat Sep 22, 8:36 am)

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?, ttw+bsd, (Sat Sep 22, 3:50 pm)

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