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RE: VMWare and which linux distro?
From: "Pete Herzog" <pete () isecom org>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 01:17:22 +0100
Hi, 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. Now this won't effect all security tests but it has become a problem in the scalpel-like precision required for certain tests where we are looking for certain packets within a given time frame. Source and Destination ports, for instance, comes to mind as an example of the corruption occurring with tests. 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. We have not done any further tests on this. Has anyone else seen this problem though? Anyone have more information on this? Sincerely, -pete. Pete Herzog, Managing Director Institute for Security and Open Methodologies www.isecom.org - www.osstmm.org www.hackerhighschool.org - www.isestorm.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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