On Tuesday 29 June 2004 4:43 pm, Li Xinyi wrote:
> Hi, there
>
> I started to learn iptables a few weeks ago. I am stuck at moment because I
> dont have many machines to play with. I am wondering is there any tools,
> which can be used to build a virtual envionment to play with routing and
> packet filtering on sinple machine. Tools like VMware would not be my
> choice because I only have 1GHz PIII with 256M memory.
It's very hard to route any packets when you only have one machine (real or
virtual).
I really think a minimum of two machines is necessary to do much experimenting
with netfilter - one machine as a client you can control, one as the router /
firewall you want to test things on, and then a connection to the Internet
where you can find all the servers...
VMware would indeed be an effective way to do this, however 256Mb RAM isn't
going to go very far :)
Regards,
Antony.
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