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":
- Windows10
WindowsServer (2016)
- Kali (Latest)
- 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. pfSense automatically sets up DHCP, so you should have network access immediately. You can now open a browser, go to https://192.168.1.1 and finish setting up pfsense.
User: admin Psas: pfSense
You should be able to use the defaults for now. Just give your system a name and remember your IP.
Kali Setup
Install Kali linux.
Window 2016
Install Windows 2016.
== Write-Up / Show ==
Show me the installs of each OS. And, using commandline only, show me the following:
- IP Address
- Show that DNS works by looking up google.com
- Show the arp table.