Hi All,
I'm considering setting up a firewall/router in a virtual machine to seperate a couple networks in my home. I intend to dedicate one of the host NICs to the WAN port of the router VM & will not load a TCP stack for that NIC in the host OS (ESXi supports this config). In theory, this configuration is as secure as a hardware router because packets can only be routed via the VM.
My questions are:
Have any of you had any good/bad experiences with this type of setup & are there potential security risks I'm not considering?
Also, if you think this is not as secure as a hardware based solution, please explain why not.
I'm not doing it to save money. I am aware that I could do the same thing with a consumer router. I'm just interested in the possibility.
Thanks,