[MLB-WIRELESS] Public IP address space?

[Mike Everest]

Excellent way to do it! :)

 - we do this with great effect using a VM running mikrotik RouterOS in
front of a whole swag of VM appliances.  RouterOS needs only a couple of
hundred meg of RAM and a couple of hundred meg of disk to run at full speed,
so adds bugger-all overhead to the system.

We install all appliance VMs with only a virtual network interface to a
private virtual switch, and the router VM has an interface to the virtual
switch and one bridged to a physical interface.

The downside, of course, is that you can only run once web server on port 80
for each real world IP address on the router, (and only one service on every
other port) but we get around this by using the routerOS vpn support to put
the virtual subnets online to our HQ network via tunnels to our central vpn
server!

You can even use the free version of RouterOS to do all this!

Cheers,  Mike.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: melbwireless-bounces at wireless.org.au [mailto:melbwireless-
> bounces at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of (GalaxyMaster)
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 June 2011 3:49 AM
> To: Steven Haigh
> Cc: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Public IP address space?
> 
> Steven,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Steven Haigh <netwiz at crc.id.au> wrote:
> > I'd like to spawn everything onto its own virtual machine - but IP
> > addresses are a little hard to come by for the plan...
> 
> I don't see any correlation between dedicated VMs and public IPs: you
> can put most of the VMs on a private network, then NAT them through a
> single VM with real addresses assigned to it.  Consider this special
> VM as a firewall :).  Just my $0.02.
> 
> P.S. Re: /24's -- I agree with you that if something is lost it's
> better to be found :).
> 
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> Dmitry D. Khlebnikov
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