Jonathan Tripathy a écrit :
> 
>> I am not a Xen expert, but AFAICT, you can configure iptables in the VM
>> and in the host.
>>
>> note that I am not saying you should do that. it really depends on your
>> setup. if you can script the work to implement "centralized" admin, then
>> it may be worth the pain.
>>    
> Yeah, I'm using to scripting iptables upon VM boot and shutdown for
> customers, so setting this up for iptables should be ok. Xen makes life
> so much easier by giving each VM an interface, so you can filter based
> on that.
>>   
>>> So you think given this, that placing the mail sever in the DMZ is ok
>>> then?
>>>
>>>      
>> sure it is. as already recommended, you can use VLAN to implement
>> logical segmentation inside a zone (provided your VLAN implementation
>> can't be circumvented. remember, this is only logical...).
>>    
> Think it would be ok if I didn't use VLAN segmentation, but just used
> iptables between hosts? I think this would nearly achieve the same thing...

these are different things. VLAN is about ethernet. iptables/pf is about
IP.

anyway, I think we're OT here since some posts, so let's not annoy other
members. feel free to contact me offlst if needed/appropriate.

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