I run EFW on a VM, and it's fairly easy once you get the pattern down. I have a red, green and blue zone on my EFW VM, so my host also has three nics. I have each nic named according to what I want it to do and what VM adapter I have it mapped to, so for me, it's RED (VMNet0), GREEN (VMNet1) and BLUE (VMNet2). To avoid config problems, and avoid exposing my VMHost to the outside world, I have the VMNet0 and VMNet2 cards pointed at a 169.0.0.X IP address (they ahve to be enabled, unfortunately).
I create a new VM (linux, any flavor will work) with 512MB of RAM and a 40GB SCSI HD. To start, I only install the green nic (bridged) on the VM. Start the EFW install routine by moutning the ISO. When it finds the one nic, declare it as green, set a static IP for it, and complete the install. Once it's done, try HTTPing into the GUI interface on the firewall. If it works, you're good to go (for ease of use, run the network config). After that, I power down the VM, and add the next nic (red), bridged. Start the EFWVM back up. Once it works, web into it again and run the network config again, this time declaring the new nic as your red zone. Test to make sure you can talk to the outside world through the red zone. If you can, good to go. Power down the VM again, install the blue zone as a bridged nic, fire it up again, run through the network config, declare the nw nic as a blue zone (if ya need it), and you're cooking with gas. From there, you should have a fully functional VM EFW. I scaled back the ram on mine, but 512 makes the install go nice and quick. dennis chen wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a newer to EFW, and run EFW in vmware for the first time. So the > question may be easy to most of you. But I really need your help. > > EFW: endian firewall community release 2 > linux host: fedora core5 with kernel 2.6.17.1 <http://2.6.17.1> > > There are three NICs in my linux host, do you have any suggestion with > how to set the network of EFW in which way I can test the EFW features? > I'm not familiar of set the network of EFW in vmware. > > Thanks for all your help! > > /Dennis > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Efw-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
