I have several virtual machines on a host. The host is on my LAN, and runs a firewall. I use Firestarter, but don't have to. The VMs are on their own virtual network. They can get to the outside world with no problem.
The problem I see is this: I want to access a VM from another (physical) machine on my network, either my laptop (for ssh) or the backup server (amanda). So I need a way to allow ssh and amanda in from the LAN to the VMs. The relevant hosts have routing table entries. If I use Firestarter to shut the firewall off entirely, I have no problems. If I enable the firewall, I can ping the VMs but not access them with ssh or amanda; I get silent timeouts. How do I tell Firestarter to allow the appropriate ports in to the virtual network? Or, if I can't do so, is there a similar firewall tool that will let me do this? -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
