Not sure since vmware instantiations communicate via
ip addresses. So in theory a seperate IP address could
be bound to it's own nic. The other question is if a
tunnel ssl or vpn can be established from nic to the
vm instance.

--- Michael J McCafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Tony,
>          Good to know. I might be able to use that,
> even in spite of 
> the fact that in this case the server admins are
> diabolically opposed 
> to us security folk. We are a big pain in their
> collective ass. They 
> are contractors to the customer, as are we. This
> customer has 
> outsourced almost everything IT, and to countless
> different 
> contractors. So, any communication and team spirit
> between the 
> contractors is accidental.
>          If we asked them to bind the the VMs to
> NICs they would 
> freak out that we were asking for them to install
> NICs and complaint 
> that it's out of scope of their current contract to
> set the server up 
> that way, etc, boo hoo. Am I sounding negative here
> ? Even so, I 
> might be able to use your info there.
> 
>          Wouldn't the VM still be on the same
> network and collision 
> domain as the host OS ? Can't I hack the host OS via
> a successful 
> compromise of a guest OS, by way of a network attack
> that leverages 
> the same physical LAN ? (ie: Man in the middle,
> spoofing, packet 
> re-writing, snooping/sniffing, etc). I still haven't
> had a chance to 
> bang around in the lab on this, but maybe soon.
> 
> Mike
> 
> At 12:52 PM 4/4/2006, you wrote:
> >It's not any big deal configuring DMZs and other
> "security zones." Would
> >be if I was using MS Virtual Server or the VMWare
> "VMWare Server" but
> >with VMWare Workstation and VMWare ESX server, you
> can define and
> >specify entire virtual networks bound to specific
> physical adapters.
> 
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