OPS235 Lab 6 - Fedora17

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Configuring a Network Using Virtual Machines

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Caution!
This lab is very much under construction. Please do not start it until this warning is removed.

Objectives

  • Use the Fedora GUI program to configure network interfaces with static IP configuration and host name resolution
  • Use the find command to locate the configuration files modified by the GUI network configuration program
  • To examine some of the Linux's TCP/IP configuration files in the /etc/ directory
  • To configure a Fedora host with static network configuration without a GUI tool
  • To use and interpret the netstat command to troubleshoot and monitor network services
  • To configure the linux firewall iptables to allow/disallow/forward different types of network traffic using simple rules

Reference

  • man pages for find, ifconfig, ping, netstat, NetworkManager, nslookup, iptables, arp
  • Online reading material for week 8.

Required materials

  • Fedora 12 Live CD or a classmate on the same pod
  • USB flash drive, 64 MB or more in size (Warning: the contents of this drive will be erased)
  • One SATA hard disk in a removable drive tray with Fedora host and 3 Fedora Virtual Machines installed

Current Configuration

Currently you should have the following network configuration:

  • Fedora host has 1 active network interface (probably eth0)that receives IP configuration from the School's DHCP server.
  • Fedora host has 1 active network interface (virbr0) that has a static default configuration of 192.168.122.1/255.255.255.0
  • Fedora1 VM has 1 active interface (eth0) that receives a dynamic configuration from your Fedora Host
  • Fedora2 VM has 1 active interface (eth0) that receives a dynamic configuration from your Fedora Host
  • Fedora3 VM has 1 active interface (eth0) that receives a dynamic configuration from your Fedora Host