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Matt Delves
Asked: 2010-11-10 18:09:27 +0800 CST

substituting for a router in a closed virtual environment

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Just a quick question, how can I create a substitute for a router in a vmware esxi environment containing several windows and linux servers on two seperate subnets?

I would like to use redhat as the server doing the routing between the subnets and I don't want to do any NAT or masquerading.

Thanks, Matt.

virtualization linux vmware-esxi linux-networking

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  1. Best Answer

    In the simplest setup, enable IP Forwarding on the redhat machine, configure both ethernet adapters to have IPs on their respective networks. Set the client machines default gateways to point to whichever redhat IP is on the same subnet.

    Now if you want this to work with external routers, you'll need to setup some static routes. That can get complicated fast.

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  2. You could create another virtual switch, assign two virtual interfaces to your RedHat VM and put each on either virtual switch and route accordingly.

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