Hi,

I have a physical server with Proxmox installed. Proxmox has both OpenVZ and
KVM virtual servers and Shorewall is installed on the same server. Shorewall
protects both Proxmox and each virtual server and handle ip traffic with
arp_proxy. Physical server has one public ip address and each virtual server
has also a public ip. Before when I only had one public I was using DNAT
with a private address space for virtual servers.

Arp_proxy works great! Especially it works well with SIP servers that work
better with public IP addresses.

>From a security perspective its better with a dedicated firewall but
sometimes you don't have that opportunity. 

/Måns 

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Hobson [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: den 18 januari 2012 08:52
To: Shorewall Users
Subject: Re: [Shorewall-users] virtual serveres

Christ Schlacta wrote:

>You may end up with simply a bridge firewall.  I recently did the same 
>thing, and am of a mind that for my purposes, an individual firewall on 
>each vm is preferable.

That's the solution I came up with as well. On my hosts I run a very basic
set of iptables rules on the outside interfaces (just to protect the host
from the outside), and then run Shorewall on each VM.

The biggest problem as I see it is the constantly changing network config.
Each time you start of stop a VM, network ports on the bridge appear or
disappear (at least with Xen).
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