Question: you need both VMs built? $30 is too low.
Anyway, I am used to IPTABLES and Virtualization. And the script that the assignment was mentioning - that was stated - this I'm assuming would be the eventual generated script from iptables-save?
I would need VM Console access because IPTables may lock you out sometimes.
I am Red Hat Certified Engineer, Red Hat Certified Expert in Clustering and Enterprise Storage Management with 8 years of Linux System Administration experience, 2 years in Robotics. Very experienced in automation work to avoid manual work on daily basis.
I do both Red Hat (CentOS/Scientific Linux are both derivatives) and Debian (Raspbian/Ubuntu are both derivatives). In all of those, I am used to do both Python and BASH scripting for automation.