Re: VMWare and which linux distro?

[Martin Mačok <martin.macok () underground cz>]

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 :-)

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         Martin Mačok                 http://underground.cz/
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