Step‐by‐step - natekreit/SYS-255 GitHub Wiki

Lab 1

Prerequisites

Create snapshots with name and details

image This image shows where and how to create snapshots on VMware.

fw01 VM Setup

Add Network adapters to the firewall VM

Go to summary section on the firewall configuration, then find the hardware section, click edit. Make sure you have both a LAN and WAN network adapter. image

Configure network adapters with MAC addresses

  1. Load firewall VM
  2. Skip the VLAN setup
  3. Assign the right MAC addresses to the right LAN or WAN network adapter.
  4. Proceed when asked to do so

Configure IP addresses for the WAN

  1. Enter option 2 to configure interface IP Addresses
  2. Then select the option for the WAN (in my case this was option 1)
  3. Subnet bit count is 24. Don't use DHCP.
  4. Enter your WAN IP address(10.0.17.105)
  5. The upstream gateway address(10.0.17.2).
  6. Press enter to bypass IPv6 configuration.
  7. Respond no to HTTP(we want HTTPS)

Configure IP addresses for the LAN

  1. Enter 2 again to configure the LAN IP address
  2. No DHCP
  3. Enter IP Address(10.0.5.2)
  4. Use 24 as the subnet bit count

Lab 2