Re: [fw-wiz] 2nd Life

Virtualization is proven to be not safe, as virtual device drivers are
not written with security in mind. So the physical separation (remember,
"VLAN is not a security feature") does the thing proper and seems to be
the only solution.

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 08:19:56PM +0100, Matej wrote:

-a bastian host is a good idea, but I would suggest a Linux server for
the setup, that might reduce your hardware costs

-the best way to open those ports, would be to restrict them by source
and destination addresses (in the example we narow down the scope)



My idea:



You could use a virtualization product. I had some positive
experiance.


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