Security for a day

In a moment of madness I found myself needing to run both Vmware Worksation and Microsoft’s Virtual Server. I wasn’t too keen on the idea of running them on the same box.

I just went with the simply solution. Vmware on one machine, Virtual Server on another, a handy piece of crossover RJ45 Ethernet cable (a hub or a switch work wonderfully too!) and used the spare network card in both machines. These new dual nic motherboards, you have to love them!

Unticked all features on the NIC settings, such as TCP/IP, File and Print Sharing and Client for Ms Networking.

In Vmware – Virtual Network Editor – Host Virtual Network Mapping bound the second NIC to VMnet6 – then bind that interface to the VM images

In Virtual Server -Virtual Network – Create a new network adapter or on the physical compute, select the second NIC and give it a pithy name (06 Internal) -then bind that interface to the VM images

Fired up a VM on each machine and then the moment of truth-

ICMP PING  …. reply -TTL 128…IT LIVES!

Mu-ha-ha!

Kicked off the new empire building, VM’s spring up on both machines. Have a happy little Windows domain running, with ISA’s load balanced  firewalls!

Wahoo! – Beats watching the junk on TV….

RFC 1918 gives everyone a class A network for home, who am I to say no to a network of 16 million machines