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Old 27th November 2012
girarde girarde is offline
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Originally Posted by ai-danno View Post
This is the basic setup I use for my servers at home- load up freebsd 9.0, VBox, then install multiple OpenBSD virtual machines on them.

I do this because I like role separation- I can have two firewalls, two DNS/time/radius servers, a file server, and five to eight experimental servers all running on two physical machines; they all run OpenBSD.
I do not think that a firewall should EVER be anything but a physical machine.

A virtual always gets its network traffic from the host's network stack. If your firewall is a virtual, the firewall's physical host is not behind it.
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