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Lab 01 Virtual Machine (VM) Creation and Network Configuration

This lab contains information directions and exercises to teach you how to:

Setup your VMs (specific to your class)
Configure a network address translation (NAT) firewall using pfSense,
Configure networking on the required VMs behind the firewall
Use the commandline to find network information including
- IP address
- Hostname
- DNS information and
- Gateway all on BSD, Linux and Windows.

Creating the VMs

First we will setup the pfSense VM.

Open internet explorer and to to https://samuel.cs.southern.edu
Select VMs (this will show any VMs that currently exist for you).
Select Deploy to deploy a new VM
Click Configure Cloud, and select the name of your cloud (Israel)
Select the pfSense template and click ok.
Click on the Configure Virtual Machine and set the "Virtual Machine Name" to: "CPTE427-username-pfsense" where you replace username with your school username. It is unneccesary to give the "computer name" at this time.
Click OK, Click Deploy at the bottom right.
Don't turn on the machine yet! Directions for setting up each machine are given below in the setup section.

Repeat the process above for the following VM templates (use the template name below for the Virtual Maqchine Name e.g. "CPTR427-scot-ubuntu":

Ubuntu (Latest LTS)
Windows10
WindowsServer (2016)
Metasploitable (latest).

After you have created all the virtual machines, see Dr. A and he will configure your NICs with the appropriate VLANs. If your machines have been started, you will need to turn them off at this point.

Network Setup

This means that you can setup your interior computers. By default, pfSense sets up a DHCP server, so you shouldn't have to setup any network information on the clients yet.

Setting up the VMs

pfSense Setup

Start the pfSense VM and allow it to start with defaults. It will eventually ask you for some information like:

You can answer no to the VLANs question as shown above and then use the first Network Interface Card (NIC) for the WAN and the second NIC for the LAN. It will ask you one more time and you can leave it blank. Answer "y" if you believe that it is correct and it will boot. It should look something like the following:

If you should reboot at this point, it should not ask you again for configuration information, but come up directly to the screen above.

Windows 10 Setup

Bootup the Windows 10 machine and go through the install process.

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-This means that you can setup your interior computers. The above image is a big enough hint for you to setup the network for each of the clients. Fill in the settings for each one in the write-up section below.
+This means that you can setup your interior computers. By default, pfSense sets up a DHCP server, so you shouldn't have to setup any network information on the clients yet.