From: John Kinsella (jlk@thrashyour.com)
Date: Mon Jul 11 2005 - 12:20:47 EDT
Anybody out there got their lab working with Partimage or (just found)
Clonezilla/DRBL? It's on my list to do this week, so I'll report back if I'm
the guinea pig, just curious if anybody has experiences...
http://www.partimage.org (site's down right now :| but the sf page is up
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/partimage/ )
http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net
John
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 04:45:29PM -0700, Mike Sweeney wrote:
> VMware is king in my lab. I use a P4 3Ghz with 2 gig of RAM and it
> just works well. The newest 5.0 workstation is very stable. I used
> version 4.x in my book and I had SuSE, Redhat, Fedora C1 and C2,
> Slackware and FreeBSD all running on VMware, sometimes multiple
> images running concurrently. On the Windows side, I have an image of
> Windows 2003 running the Cisco 3.x Secure Server for RADIUS/TACACS+
> work.
>
> I also recycled an old Cisco 4230 IDS unit into a test box. It's a
> dual P3 500 and works pretty well aside from it weighs a ton to move
> around being a 4U rack mount box.
>
> For firewalls, I have different IP table scripts to load, a PIX501
> and a m0n0wall router on a WISP card(kicks ass). I have two access
> points, Cisco 340 and a hacked Linksys. Various switches and hubs
> laying around.
>
> Workstations are a few different intel laptops, my compaq 700M is a
> fav even though it's only a PIII/800 but it has swappable drives. I
> have several drives preloaded with different OSs. in a lab, that is
> very handy and it's handy onsite. I just recently picked up a iMacG5
> which I love and I've been using for my daily stuff. Pretty front end
> and BSD based backend.. you gotta love it.
>
> Imaging server? no way dude ;) A firewire/USB2 external drive with
> Acronis TrueImage works fine and is ALOT cheaper :) I use it on both
> Wintel and the Linux boxen. I have not tried it on the Mac but then
> Carbon Copy Cloner works fine for Tiger when run from a command line.
>
> I should mention that a switch that supports real VLANs is very handy
> to mock up a network of different subnets etc. I say real VLANs only
> because some switches claim they do VLANs but cheeseout on the
> details. A brand "D" switch does vlans but you can not mirror the
> VLAN, only a port in the VLAN which kind of sucks at times. Maybe the
> newer ones are better but I just bought a used Cisco 2900 series and
> called it done.
>
> Mike Sweeney
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> On Jul 10, 2005, at 3:42 PM, Erin Carroll wrote:
>
> >All,
> >
> >I'm in the process of setting up a pen-test lab environment of several
> >servers running various OS flavors (both Windows & BSD/*nix) along
> >with a
> >netscreen-10 firewall and cisco 3825 to use as the lab router. What
> >do other
> >list members use for their lab environments and what suggestions/
> >issues have
> >you encountered? I'm just using equipment I have laying around but
> >would be
> >interested in hearing about other lab setups to get some ideas (or
> >excuses
> >to go shopping) on what else I can utilize for pen-testing practice.
> >
> >I'm definitely going to set up an imaging server (jumpstart &
> >Altiris) to
> >make changing things around less painful but I've also considered
> >Vmware on
> >the hosts. Basically I'm curious as to what you all use to practice
> >pen-testing to keep the skills sharp when not "on the job".
> >
> >Thanks!
> >--
> >Erin Carroll
> >"Do Not Taunt Happy-Fun Ball"
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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