Lab 1 Environment Setup - nrubera/SYS-255-03-Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

For this lab I configured my personal network on the cyber.local network. For this I had to configure the WAN/LAN IP addresses within my PFsense firewall VM. For this I used the menu options and then input the IP addresses given to me from the spreadsheet. After setting up those addresses, I booted up my windows work station and configured the IP addresses manually rather than using the automatic ones from Windows. I then went onto google to access the pfSense GUI by entering 10.0.5.2 and logging in.

Some useful terms from this lab:

pfSense is a very popular open source firewall that you can use for networks.

Tracert is a command within Windows used trace the route a packet takes from one IP address to another and it shows you all the "stops" on the way to its destination

Powershell is a tool within Windows that is essentially a better version of command line that can be used for scripting along with all the standard command lines commands.