[ale] VM for WAN connection?

[James Sumners]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
wrote:

> Don't bother.  Too much extra overhead and if something with the VM
> system fails or is compromised then lots of other problems happen.
>
> Just set the thing up to pass whatever open ports you need straight
> through and open the service ports (SSH, etc.) to only the inside
> network.  If you need to access the router from the outside, bounce
> through an internal machine first instead of allowing a direct
> connection to the router.
>
> You could also set the internal service ports to accept connections from
> only a select few internal machines.
>

Turns out it doesn't even matter. I wasn't thinking about the CPU when I
had my little brainstorm. The CPU doesn't support VT extensions and that
just isn't worth the slowness --
http://ark.intel.com/products/77774/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G3220T-3M-Cache-2_60-GHz


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