This work by Stephane KATTOOR is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
My new center of interest those days being virtualization, I tried quite a few software starting with Xen, then QEMU, then KVM, and finally VirtualBox. But as far as giving a network access to the VM is concerned, I’ve always sticked to a network bridge for the reason that this makes the VM appear on the network just like any other computer of your network.
This post provided a sample script to setup a bridge suitable to use with all of the named virtualization softwares.
This post presents what is the attack known as “ARP Man in the Middle” which is basically a way for a malicious user to sniff network traffic on a fully switched network. If you don’t know this attack yet, go on reading.
This posts gives a short intro about VLAN and a simple configuration sample on a DELL PowerConnect 5224 switch with an OpenBSD machine.
