On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:55 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:13:53 +1200, Abhinav Keswani > <[email protected]> wrote: >> So there is the answer to your own question? You can use >> virtualisation to create an 'appliance' that you can >> test/drop/burn/whatever. > > I'm sorry, I should have made clear that I already know about > virtualisation, it's the network part that I need help with: making it only > reachable from the host. > > Bad ASCII-art illustration: > > +-----------------------------+ > | NETWORK +----------+| > | HOST-------->| GUEST || > | (CLIENT) | (SERVER) || > | | | || > | | +----------+| > +-----+-----------------------+ > | > | > | > TO OUTSIDE NETWORK > > This what I have in mind: the host is on the local network as usual, and > another one with the guest, which can not reach the host's other network > connection to the outside world. > > Is this just too weird?
One must ask "why" - the network is the computer after all :) If you are doing this at home, do you mistrust the other users on your LAN? If you are doing it at school or similar I can understand.
