On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Graham Toal wrote:
Just an update on the popularity of the OpenBSD 3.8 VM image:
Since it was posted on Dec 19 (4 days ago), apache logs have shown 2826
hits on the file with just over 277 gigs of traffic created by those
downloads.
Not bad for only a few days.
I hope this isn't too OT for this list, but...
do you know if it is possible under VMWare to have the
virtual system be the only one which talks to the real
ether card, while having the hosted PC only communicate
to the net by routing via the VM'd system?
What I'm thinking is that we could set up an OpenBSD
as a personal firewall to a (cough, spit) Windows machine,
and channel all the IP for the Windows machine through
that VM'd OpenBSD system.
Was doing something similar a while back -
http://www.blackant.net/other/docs/howto-win-obsd-pf.php
Some issues with it, check out -
http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20020818020316
The December 2005 issue of ;login: has an article about this topic as
well, it helps that VMware usb device support has grown -
http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2005-12/index.html
The "Virtual Firewall" project mentioned in the article -
http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~vp/VirtualFirewall/
Coincidentally, the same ;login: issue has an article "Linux vs. OpenBSD:
A Firewall Performance Test" where they test RedHat 7.3 (2.4 kernel) and
OpenBSD 3.3. It's anyone's guess why they would print an article about 2
unsupported OS's that are over 2 years old each.
-f
http://www.blackant.net/
