ESXi firewall works not

Hello

I have setup a firewall rule for the vSphere Client. I want to achieve is that anyone of any public IP address can connect via SSH and/or Client vSphere.

Following information and went to vSphere installation rules. But I can always connect to my IP at home,

Any advice? Should I reload the firewall?

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Looks like you gave the ESX host a routable WAN IP and have it connected to the Internet, this is about asking for trouble. The ESX firewall is not intended to be used as a hardened firewall exposed for the scum of the Internet in the world. This will lead eventually to what colleagues in this post ended up with.

You are limiting the remote IP addresses, but that host still has a routable IP address, which means people can push away at and see if they can sneak into the firewall.

If you really insist on the connection from the host to the Internet directly with no in-between of hardware firewall, at the very least, install a virtual firewall on the host computer, give the NETWORK WAN card exclusively, give him a secondary NETWORK card next LAN of the virtual firewall on a separate vSwitch and move your management VMKernel sideways interface LAN (do not do this unless you have a secondary NETWORK card or you risk locking yourself from your own host if the virtual firewall fails for some reason any). In this way, the only IP address that is exposed is one that feeds your virtual Firewall - not a VMKernel management interface.

Using a router virtual would also give you the opportunity to implement virtual private networks and apply rules other than the host ESX itself can not simply do. It also lets you take advantage of advanced features, such as kinetically limiting, IP banning, perhaps even an installation of intrusion detection. In addition, you will have the best newspapers to see if something happens. I would recommend pfSense, but there are a lot of options out there.

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