Lab 01 Virtual Firewalls and Windows 10 Configureation

08/30/2022

With this being the first lab for SYS-255 the overall idea was to configure a firewall and the first VM work station for my network that will be expanded upon as the course advanced. This was my first experence with vSphere and the VM network.

Important to remember for new vSphere VMs

• Configure network adapter to LAN from WAN
• Configure machine/change system name and hostname

The first step in configuration for the Firewall was to assign networks to the interfaces and configure IP addresses for those interfaces.

• WAN Network Adapter em0
  • 10.0.17.111/24
• LAN Network Adapter em1
  • 10.0.5.2/24
• WAN upstream gateway 10.0.17.2

Upstream Gateway

• Gateway where all data in VM local network must pass through to travel to outside networks or Upstream.

Once the network adapters were configured the next step was to configre a windows workstation VM which would be used to finish the firewall configuration through a browser. On the worksation a new local administative account was to be created to make further changes on the system. Using this VM pfSense the configureation tool for the firewall was accesed through chrome. Configuration included setting Hostname, Domain, and setting the Primary DNS server.

• Hostname: fw1-cameron
• Domain: Cameron.local
• DNS: 8.8.8.8

When configuration was completed the windows VM was then able to travel through the firewall to access outside networks. To test connectivity the workstation successfully pinged google.com and champlain.edu as well as accesing champlain.edu through the chrome browser.