Hello. I have recently looked at ASG and would like to use it on my small home network. I have worked with computers for over 20 years, mostly MS though some OS2 & u*ix. I have reasonable basic knowledge of networking though setting up routing tables, etc at this time is done by referring to FAQs, books & assistance.
I have been using VMPlayer for a bit and have run it on Win 7 and Mandriva. I would like to set up a MS box (Win 7) with a nice Areca RAID 5 and use it as a NAS.
I would also like to install VMPlayer on that box and then run ASG on VMPlayer. My goal is to have the one machine work both as a NAS and a firewall.
As I envision it my cable internet connection would connect to a NIC in the box and somehow be exclusively routed to the ASG program running on VMWare. I plan to have ASG serve both as a firewall and provide the routing tables for my external switch. Therefore I see the output of ASG (I will not be using a DMZ) being exclusively directed to a second NIC in the MS box.
This output will then be sent to my external switch which then connects to my internal MS network. I'm envisioning one of the outputs from the switch being sent back to a third NIC card in the original MS box that is running ASG. This third NIC will then access the MS system which will primarily run the RAID and provide additional storage for the network.
I can draw a chart illustrating my thoughts but I think (I could easily be wrong) that my description is enough to describe my idea.
I would greatly appreciate thoughts, comments, suggestions, etc.
As always I thank everyone for taking the time to read my comments and for their replies.
PS -
I see that I have probably posted this at the wrong forum. I will consider which ones would be better for this posting. However, if anyone wishes to comment that would be appreciated.
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