Re: [Efw-user] What aer your thoughts about running Nagios NRPE daemon on Endain?

2009-02-24 Thread Keith Coles
Steven I run a couple of Endian installations with NRPE installed. I try to make sure its secure as possible by - making sure it uses SSL for communication with the Nagios host. - make sure the nagios hosts allowed to connect is kept to a strictly controlled list - configure NRPE to *not* accept

Re: [Efw-user] Endian Firewall under VMWare Server

2009-02-24 Thread compdoc
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Re: [Efw-user] Endian Firewall under VMWare Server

2009-02-24 Thread Shaun Skillin (home)
Hi Joerg, When I made this same test (I think it is the same), I had to be sure that the physical NIC used on the outside link was only accessible from the RED interface of the EFW VM. I assigned it a bogus IP in the host, which was not used, only so that it would not try to obtain an IP from t

Re: [Efw-user] What aer your thoughts about running Nagios NRPE daemonon Endain?

2009-02-24 Thread Shaun Skillin (home)
Personally, I like to give it the old stress test - how much crap can I put on here at one time, and still have a secure firewall? I know this is not the recommended approach, but sometimes you need to do a whole lot with a little bit of hardware, especially if you're multiplying your hardware cos

Re: [Efw-user] Endian Firewall under VMWare Server

2009-02-24 Thread Joerg Lahnsteiner
Hi Shaun, it seems, there is a problem with the wireless network connection that a needed feature is not supported?. I tried now with the wired connection with the same settings and there it works without any problems, with and without proxy. All works, but not with wireless connection. Any id

[Efw-user] What aer your thoughts about running Nagios NRPE daemon on Endain?

2009-02-24 Thread Steven Sher
I having been playing around with Nagios to monitor our servers for us. I was playing with the idea of installing the NRPE daemon onto the Endian boxes. At first I thought it was a bad idea, running extra software on your firewall is not generally a good idea, but then I started thinking if I n

Re: [Efw-user] Endian Firewall under VMWare Server

2009-02-24 Thread Shaun Skillin (home)
Hi Jeorg, It sounds like possibly the physical NIC in the laptop is not in the same subnet as the virtual NIC (bridged) or possibly you are not using the EFW VM as the default gateway for your host laptop's OS. Could that be it? It can get weird when using the host machine as a client of one o

[Efw-user] Endian Firewall under VMWare Server

2009-02-24 Thread Joerg Lahnsteiner
Dear users, I have installed Endian Firewall 2.2 RC3 in a virtual machine but I have problems with the connection from my LAN green zone to the internet red zone. Testsystem: Notebook with WinXP SP3 and wireless connection VMWare Server 2.0.0 Virtual machine with 5 GB, 512MB RAM and 2 virtual ne