Smallest Firewall / Router VM in My Vmware ESXi and Workstation

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本文介绍了一种轻量级的虚拟路由器解决方案，该路由器虚拟镜像文件大小仅1.4MB，内存需求低至16MB。作者分享了在家庭实验室环境中使用VMware ESXi和Workstation进行网络测试的经验，并探讨了多种虚拟路由器和防火墙的选择，包括主流厂商如Cisco、CheckPoint、Juniper等，以及开源方案如OpenWRT、PFsense、RouterOS等。

Last updated on August 9, 2019

In my home lab virtual environment, VMware ESXi and Workstation used to host most of my testing virtual machines. To get those VMs working together in a multi networks diagram, I always need to have a router or firewall VM. I were using all kinds of virtual routers or firwealls, such as those major vendors, Cisco, CheckPoint, Juniper, Fortinet, Palo Alo, also some small vendors, such as OpenWRT,PFsense, RouterOS, etc. But recent I found one small Virtual image surprised me. The whole virtual image file is only 1.4MB. Memory only needs 16MB.