Virtual-Lan

Setup a Virtual Local Area Networking Using CentOS 5.5

OS Installation

• Install 64-bit version of CentOS 5.5 with Virtualization Packages
• Create Four Virtual Machines, each with 8GB of disk space, 1G Memory, 1CPU
• Install CentOS5.5 on VM1 to VM3 with at least the following packages:
  • NFS
  • NIS
  • DNS
  • DHCP
  • Postfix, sendmail
  • OpenLDAP
• CentOS 5.5 configuration:
  • Enable iptables
  • Create a regular user account
  • Enable SELinux

• Collect the following information:
  • IP address(es) assigned to the host OS and each VM for the virtual network
  • Name of the network device used by the host OS to connect to the virtual network
  • IP address, netmask, and gateway for each guest OS
  • Name of the device used by each guest OS to connect to the virtual network

• Install Fedora 14 on VM4 with the following packages:
  • NFS
  • NIS
  • DNS
  • OpenLDAP
  • Wireshark
  • tcpdump

Virtual Network Configuration

• Default Virtual Network
  • Network Address 192.168.122.0/24
  • Network Type: NAT
• Create the 2nd Virtual Network, named "opsnet"
  • Network Address 192.168.[x].0/24 where [x] assigned by your professor
  • Network Type: Isolated
• Locate the name of the physical network device connected to the lab network. The following configuration assume eth3 as the device name name.
  • assignment 172.16.[x].1 to the alias of eth3: ifconfig eth3:0 172.16.[x].1