Re: [fw-wiz] VMware (or else) in different areas/dmz

From: Mikael Olsson (mikael.olsson@clavister.com)
Date: 01/31/03 

From: Mikael Olsson <mikael.olsson@clavister.com>
To: "Paul D. Robertson" <proberts@patriot.net>
Date: Fri Jan 31 08:00:31 2003

"Paul D. Robertson" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Siebenkaes Stefan wrote:
>
> > What about your opinions on that?
> > Does anybody run virtual machines in DIFFERENT zones?
> > Are there any known security issues (besides bad configuration) on
> > communication between virtual machines on VMWare or comparable
> > software?
>
> I don't know what your server platform is, but I've seen Linux 2.4.x
> kernels switch interface order between reboots in a stock RH 8.0 setup.
> First boot, it was eth0, now it's eth1- very fun for multihomed machines.

And I've had NT4 gone and do it on me. Multiple times.
On a 4-NIC box. For no apparent reason. Infinitely annoying.

Fortunately, in my case, this is just a workstation with a bunch
of extra NICs for testing purposes, so this isn't a security
problem for me, but ..... 

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