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Re: VMWare and which linux distro?
From: Martin Mačok <martin.macok () underground cz>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:51:32 +0100
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 01:17:22AM +0100, Pete Herzog wrote:
In our testing lab, we have seen some problems with the sending and receiving of various types of TCP / UDP packets from within a Virtual Machine as part of an attack system.
What problems? Some deterministic behaviour or "random" stuff? Corruption?
Source and Destination ports, for instance, comes to mind as an example of the corruption occurring with tests.
Do you use NAT for VM Networking?
Our suspician is a corruption which occurs in the binding with the ethernet card and regardless of OS or whether the VM has it's own external IP address or not, it still occurs enough that we had to stop using a VM to make tests from.
VM with external IP address ... that means you use the Bridged mode VM Networking?
We have not done any further tests on this. Has anyone else seen this problem though? Anyone have more information on this?
I don't. I use Linux as a primary/host OS for doing most of the tests and VMWare/Windows just for doing some MS Windows-only things which are usually application level works and not low level networking stuff. It also makes me feel better to have MS Windows as the OS that is sandboxed :-) -- Martin Mačok http://underground.cz/ martin.macok () underground cz http://Xtrmntr.org/ORBman/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Re: VMWare and which linux distro?, (continued)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? Christopher Downs (Jan 08)
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- RE: VMWare and which linux distro? Karmil Asgarally (Jan 08)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? amine (Jan 08)
- RE: VMWare and which linux distro? Christoph Strizik (Jan 08)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? Martin Mačok (Jan 08)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? R. DuFresne (Jan 09)
- RE: VMWare and which linux distro? Pete Herzog (Jan 18)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? Roger A. Grimes (Jan 19)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? Martin Mačok (Jan 19)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? circut (Jan 08)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? Nathan R. Valentine (Jan 08)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? John Davis (Jan 08)