On 9/21/07, Kent Watsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some commercial firewalls (i.e. Juniper/NetScreen ScreenOS-based gear) > have been offering virtual-systems for years now. I think the negative > comments received here may be appropriate when sharing the system with > non-secure guest OSs, but it seems that it might be alright if its > nothing but firewalls
I have no detailed knowledge of those devices, but I'm pretty sure their virtual firewalls are not accomplished by virtualizing the OS, but by supporting multiple routing tables and rules-sets. Virtual and virtual may be different in reality. /Tony