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Running UTM with one physical NICs on ESXi providing 2 vNICs

xoaC
Hello,

As my home network is growing bigger and bigger
and I am not satisfied with the firewall my ISP provides,
I am looking for a new firewall which I found in UTM.

According to my plan, I want to set up UTM on my home server with ESXi.
The server has one ethernet cable onto the motherboards NIC plugged into it
and UTM needs at least 2 as far as I'm concerned..
So will it cause any kind of collision when i run UTM over one physical cable 
and NIC with ESXi providing 2 vNICs over one cable?

Thanks in advance
xoaC


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    In that case I suppose you'd need to use VLAN's. One of the NIC's should be connected to your modem (or router which is preferably in bridging mode), while the other NIC is used to connect to the rest of your own Internal network.
    It's obvious that traffic on these two subnets needs to be segregated.

    Managing several Sophos UTMs and Sophos XGs both at work and at some home locations, dedicated to continuously improve IT-security and feeling well helping others with their IT-security challenges.

    Sometimes I post some useful tips on my blog, see blog.pijnappels.eu/category/sophos/ for Sophos related posts.

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    In that case I suppose you'd need to use VLAN's. One of the NIC's should be connected to your modem (or router which is preferably in bridging mode), while the other NIC is used to connect to the rest of your own Internal network.
    It's obvious that traffic on these two subnets needs to be segregated.

    Managing several Sophos UTMs and Sophos XGs both at work and at some home locations, dedicated to continuously improve IT-security and feeling well helping others with their IT-security challenges.

    Sometimes I post some useful tips on my blog, see blog.pijnappels.eu/category/sophos/ for Sophos related posts.

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    It's obvious that traffic on these two subnets needs to be segregated.


    The traffic of which two subnets..?
    I didn't quite get that part [:S]

    I'm going from the bare modem which hasn't got any function of a router,
    directly into the server..
    Just for clarification
  • 0 in reply to xoaC
    The traffic of which two subnets..?
    I didn't quite get that part [:S]

    I'm going from the bare modem which hasn't got any function of a router,
    directly into the server..
    Just for clarification


    One subnet is your internal network, the other is the subnet between the UTM and the main router.

    Managing several Sophos UTMs and Sophos XGs both at work and at some home locations, dedicated to continuously improve IT-security and feeling well helping others with their IT-security challenges.

    Sometimes I post some useful tips on my blog, see blog.pijnappels.eu/category/sophos/ for Sophos related posts.

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