Third note: the software firewall solution used in this guide is IPCop, although I have personally used and tested this with IPCop, pfSense, m0n0wall, SmoothWall, Freesco, and many others. Secondly, the screenshots provided in this guide are VirtualBox, a free solution provided by Oracle (nee Sun) at The reasons for using this solution over others will be covered after the guide. So please refer to the 5th paragraph of that link to set up network manager in VMWare. The prior how-to still works for VMWare workstation, player, and server, and the hard part about using VMWare is setting up the network manager. The purpose of this guide is to help complete laymen get a software firewall up that provides more security and ease of use than an off-the-shelf solution from a big box store - and to help those who have already set one of these up but have more specific needs than a simple INTERNET -> HOME NETWORK sort of network.įirst, I’ve switched to Open Source software, but these instructions work (known!) on VMWare workstation, microsoft virtualPC (don’t use it though), VirtualBox, and any linux flavor that allows bridging of NIC devices to virtual NIC devices (Xen, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, qemu, etc.) My last guide was such a huge success that I still get email about it twice a month… so i have decided to update the guide to a more generic look at how to software firewall in a virtual machine, and more specific questions can be answered in the thread’s replies. This solution will completely replace your current router with one that is more powerful, more secure, and easier to maintain (via hard drive snapshots, etc.) Note: this guide explains how to set up a software virtual machine router on a windows computer, to replace an off the shelf linksys/dlink/belkin router you may have on your network.
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