Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 01:19:25 -0400 From: "Nick" <nick_fbsd@cogeco.ca> To: <z3l3zt@hackunite.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Can FreeBSD do what vmware can do? Message-ID: <20040421051839.D3E4E207E@fep4.cogeco.net> In-Reply-To: <2468.213.112.193.112.1082493171.squirrel@mail.hackunite.net>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jesper Wallin > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 4:33 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Can FreeBSD do what vmware can do? > > Heya.. > > If you have a machine with vmware installed.. the machine has one NIC > connected to a > network which is using a DHCP server which only allow 1 ip per MAC. You > start the box > and you get an IP.. then you install vmware, install another operating > system on it > (doesn't really mather which) and set the network device in vmware to > "bridged" and > start it.. then the virtual machine in vmware will get it's own IP even if > the MAC > restricts 1 ip per MAC.. > > Therefore, it IS possible to change/spoof/hide/fake MAC and have a virtual > NIC.. So my > question is, how can I do this without vmware and just virtual NIC on my > system? My idea > is to have one box infront of all other boxes in my network but yet use > all 5 ips my ISP > allow me to have. If I get this work, I can do stats, filter the whole > network, log > traffic and so on instead if setting up 5 firewalls, 5 loggers, etc but > yet have 5 > differet IPs.. > > > Regards, > Jesper Wallin I think IP Aliasing would be what you are looking for, or setting up a filtering bridge/transparent firewall. Check out... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bridging.h tml - or - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/filtering-bridges/index. html Nick Radonicich nick@cogeco.ca
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