nuqneH, Looks like i am being forced into designing all-in-one box with extended functionality, combining firewall and a buch of services i really don't like putting into firewall, but they say it's marketing demand ;-) The serives are antispam/anitvirus filters/IDS corellator and so on. I strongly decline running those in the same address space. So using system call wrappers like FreeBSD jail is not sufficient. I'd prefer BSD-like system, but only thing that does fit my needs seems to be User Mode Linux. Are there other things worth detailed analysis? boschs (if i remember the name correctly) has terrific performance overhead, vmware is proprietary.. Another question is inter-instanse communication. I need a kind of loopback interface to let components to talk to each other without allowing access to physical NIC when it is not required. Any hints? _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards