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Esxi And Mikrotik Firewall

Sat Jan 28, 2023 8:38 am

Hello, I want to put 1 Mikrotik server in Esxi for the firewall of other servers
How can I do this?
All passing traffic must be done from the same Mikrotik server.
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Re: Esxi And Mikrotik Firewall

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Re: Esxi And Mikrotik Firewall

Sat Jan 28, 2023 7:42 pm

Current Cloud Hosted Router (CHR) page:
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/pages/vi ... d=18350234
 
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Re: Esxi And Mikrotik Firewall

Sun Jan 29, 2023 7:45 am

All passing traffic must be done from the same Mikrotik server.
Well, how you setup the VMWare network and vSwitch (e.g. use multiple vSwitch'es, or use VLAN tags with them) is likely the key thing to figure out first (e.g. Layer 2)...Basically an VMWare network assigned the Mikrotik CHR is available as an interface, it then just standard Ip networking so the Mikrotik firewall work as long as traffic was routed to it. But ESXi doesn't really care about IP or firewalls, ESXi just maps it virtual networks to physical ports (or tagged physical ports) – the IP routing is up to you.

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