Lab01 Environment Setup - nicholaslamon/SYS255 GitHub Wiki

In this weeks lab, I set up my own virtual desktop and WAN within the cyber.local network here on campus. During this lab, I configured a pfSense firewall, a VM host, and linked those two together via "virtual cabling." To do this, I edited the settings of the firewall to be routed through my own WAN and into a LAN. After assigning those IP addresses, I configured the VM host manually, inputting the IP, Subnet Mask, and default gateway. After configuring that, I logged on to pfSense and set it up on the VM so I could access the internet through my own WAN and firewall.

Important takeaways:

pfSense is a firewall tool that we used to set up firewalls on our own WAN/LAN VM's. This tool was very indepth about how the firewall was being configured but also was easy to understand. Going forward, I think it will making working with firewall rules much easier than some other tools or even the default Windows service.

Powershell is a built in coding/scripting environment that is apart of windows. We used it to run commands such as:

• whoami - displays the user on the host machine
• hostname - displays the hostname of the machine
• tracert -h - traces the route to a specific website in only the specified amount of hops
• ipconfig - displays information about the host machine such as IPv4 address, DNS, default gateway

GitHub is a open source library for people to use for a million and one uses. I've never worked with GitHub before, so personally I am a little fearful of how much customization there is, simply because there is so much for me to learn about it. While working on this wiki, however, I think that it will be a nice tool to know how to use going forward.