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[Xen-devel] NFS and interface security

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Subject: [Xen-devel] NFS and interface security
From: stevegt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 08:04:41 -0800
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Two Xen features I like very much:

- Virtual domains can't see each others' traffic via 'tcpdump', which
  means that, for instance, guests using NFS root partitions are
  relatively isolated from each other on the wire.

- In a virtual domain, I can't simply 'ifconfig eth0:1 ip.on.my.lan' and
  expect it to route; i.e. virtual domains can't steal IP addresses.

Kudos to whoever made this work right.  Am I correct in my
interpretations here?  I.e. is this as secure as it looks?

There's a note in TODO that says "The current virtual firewall/router is
completely broken."  Is this still valid?

Steve
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Stephen G. Traugott  (KG6HDQ)
UNIX/Linux Infrastructure Architect, TerraLuna LLC
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