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Re: [Xen-users] Xen networking concepts

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 23:32 +0100, René Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2005 at 1130 -0500, John A. Sullivan III appeared and said:
> >
> > Fernando made a really important point that I hope didn't slip by.  Your
> > original e-mail described binding an external IP address to Dom0.  I
> > would recommend never doing such a thing.  If someone compromises dom0,
> > they have everything.
> 
> Yes, I didn't miss that point.
> 
> > [...]
> > We heavily shield dom0 with no IP addresses bound to the public
> > interface and pass all external traffic through the firewall as you
> > proposed.
> 
> That's what I have in mind. The problem with the setup is the fact that
> the server is "heavily colocated", so we probably have to assign Dom0 an
> external IP address for system administration. I proposed to my
> colleagues to use a second IP address for the firewall and make the
> access to Dom0 VPN-only in addition to limiting packets from selected
> networks only. 
> 
> Thanks for your insights!
> 
> Best,
> Lynx.
> 
Why do you need a second IP address (unless I missed something).  To
eliminate the need to publicly expose the dom0 even in colocation
scenarios, we typically assign dom0 a private address only and access it
via VPN.  Thus one only needs a public IP address for the VPN gateway -
John
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