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Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> writes: |
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> I just saw the installation of vmware and the generation of a virtual image as |
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> more involved than what I suggest above. Using the raw logs from the router |
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> and filtering/sorting these through a spreadsheet would probably make them |
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> easier to read. Anyway, what ever works better/easier for you. |
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Thanks for your input... very usefull. |
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And you are probably right about |
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'installation of vmware and the generation of a virtual image' being |
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more trouble. (If it had to be done from scratch) |
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I wouldn't be doing it from scratch since I have a vmware setup with a |
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gentoo application running on one of the winXP boxes already, so that |
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kind of `colored' my notion of what would be more trouble I |
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guess. hehe. |
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I left out the connections from hub to a machine illustrating the fact |
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that it had to be done somewhere and whereever it was it would need |
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some kind of protection. |
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As I mentioned in OP, my gentoo box is pretty freewheeling ... don't |
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use a firewall at all, the firewall is on the router/switch/firewall. |
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Which is easy to configure and nearly maintenance free. Makes no |
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noise and takes very little space. |
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In my experience IPTABLES in the hands of a novice is no where near |
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maintenance free and not so easy either. Much more likely to shoot |
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yourself in the foot. I went to a store-bought firewall some yrs ago |
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exactly from having unending troubles getting my own working. |
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So I didn't see how installing a second NIC, and accompanying |
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firewall would really be any different than just chucking the hub and |
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letting the second nic connect in that position. But I'm not very |
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knowledgable here so maybe that isn't really an option, or a bad one. |
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And either one seemed more involved than doing something from an |
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existing vmware on a winXP or just suffering along with clunky logs. |
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Or whatever scripting I could muster to pull info out of them |
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quickly. |
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> real time so the risk of exposure (as I understand it in this context) is |
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> minimal, but others may want to comment. |
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I hope they do. I'd be interested. |
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[...] snipped other helpful info |
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Thanks for the info and the names of some of the tools involved. |
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