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Re: VLANs in VM


From: Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:51:14 +0100

On 17 September 2010 22:50, Nils <nils () hemmann de> wrote:

If you are monitoring a trunk link with many VLANs you are basically
seeing all the traffic plus the VLAN tags
I'm dealing quite a lot with VLANs in an enterprise environment and the
part I'm not getting here is the "hopping VLANs" part.
mh, I think we need to talk about this in person at Brucon. One problem
might be me not being a native speaker.
.....and sorry for mistaking you for Paul  :-)

Sure, lets talk about it over a drink. Anyone else coming to Brucon
and want to chime in feel free.

Robin

Nils

Am 17.09.2010 16:51, schrieb Robin Wood:
On 17 September 2010 08:09, Nils <nils () hemmann de> wrote:
 I'm still not quite sure what Paul is aiming for but my take on this
is, just provide a trunk link to the virtual machines and let the
system's driver take care of the 802.1q tagged packets. Then you can
handle a bunch of VLANs on a single system and see how you can
manipulate them.
You would need a 802.1q capable switch for the trunk link though.
Its not Paul, its me and what I want to do is to experiment with
setting up and sniffing VLANs. Things like, can I hop VLANs easily, if
I put a sniffer at point X what can I see, what about point Y?

If I can do this in a VM lab then it is much easier to do than to do
it in the physical world. So I want to get the VirtualBox internal
switch/router to handle 802.1q packets.

Does that make sense?

Robin

Nils

On 9/16/2010 7:08 PM, Carlos Perez wrote:
for voiphopper and other 802.1q I go physical, for jumping segments attacking routing protocols and other stuff 
with ESX I can do 802.1q in the virtual switches and use the physical one in conjunction
On Sep 16, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Robin Wood wrote:

On 16 September 2010 16:32, Carlos Perez <carlos_perez () darkoperator com> wrote:
righ now I have an old Cisco 3550 for playing with that, best bet would be to get an old cisco, procurve, 3com 
..etc from ebay
each vendor has it own twist on "Standard Protocols"
How is best to tie that into a VM lab? Or do you just mean plug some
physical hardware in to it and go from there? I've got enough machines
kicking around that I could do a physical lab but space, noise and
portability have prevented me from doing it so far.

On Sep 16, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Robin Wood wrote:

On 16 September 2010 16:08, Matthew Manor <kingmanor () gmail com> wrote:
Have you tried Vyatta?  It can do most of what Cisco IOS can do but
virtually, including VLANs, and you can certainly run an entire lab of
VMs off of it.
I've just had a quick look through it but can't tell if it would help
or not. I want to put different machines in my VirtualBox lab onto
different VLANs so I can experiment with them. Do you know if their
software product would do that?

-Matt Manor

On 9/16/10, Carlos Perez <carlos_perez () darkoperator com> wrote:
Do you mean having a switch with 802.1q?

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On Sep 16, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:

Is there any way to setup a VLAN environment in a virtual environment?
They are something I've never had much chance to play with and I'd
love to get it labbed up so I can. I know there are virtual systems
for running IOS images but don't think I could then hang a bunch of
VMs off those machines.

Preferably VirtualBox methods but any VM will do.

Robin
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