Configuring a Network Using Virtual Machines

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

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

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

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

Important We will be working with your 3 VM's
Start all 3 VM's for this lab.

Important
It is advisable to perform a yum update on your Fedora host and all 3 VM's.