Well I'm certainly no expert in all this and I'm happy to be corrected before I make any more mistakes with my configuration. Man am I glad I put this post out because I'm getting such great feedback!
I'll have to re-think this but I honestly thought (I guess I'm wrong) that if I my first OpenBSD VM image running on ESXi as my strong firewall I would be ok. Basically its just a virtualization of my physical environment but all on one box with 3 VM images. So my idea was to have second OpenBSD image (not the firewall OpenBSD image) running with Samba as my Domain Controller and File server, and Email server and then the third Windows VM running just the custom app. I figured that as long as all the 'Net traffic hit my first OpenBSD VM and was properly filtered and controlled by pf, spam greylisting, brute force checked, etc I would be ok? No? --- On Thu, 5/21/09, Dag Richards <dagricha...@speakeasy.net> wrote: > From: Dag Richards <dagricha...@speakeasy.net> > Subject: Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501 > To: misc@openbsd.org > Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 9:24 AM > Jason Dixon wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 08:05:52AM -0700, Obiozor > Okeke wrote: > >> Well I should have mentioned that the ESXi is also > running a Windows server VM for a custom app that requires > it. So the idea was to have one box running ESXi and > reduce hardware costs. > > > > > > BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! > > > > > > *whew* > > > > Thanks, I needed that. > > > Er yes, you will not be able to get there from here. > > Re-think. > > > Don't run vmware on your firewall. > > If you virtualize your entire DC in to a single box, still > don't run your firewall as a vm.
