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Oh I see what you mean! Either way, I was wondering if there was any hidden advanced settings that was not visible in the picture.

Unless you buy second hand hardware like Digip mentioned, it won't be cheap to set up a virtualized infrastructure like that.

The ISO file could have been corrupted, I would suggest re-download the ISO file and use this utility to create a bootable USB and then try again. By the way, that's what I used to install Ubuntu on my laptop. http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

Your /etc/init.d/httpd: Have you made any change to this configuration file. If not, sounds like you will need to configure it. ./airsnarf: line 48: /etc/init.d/sendmail: No such file or directory, a good indication that sendmail hasn't been configured properly or not installed at all. <Picture removed>

What commands are you using to extract the file? And what's the error you are receiving when extracting the file?

Why don't you just download the TOR Browser bundle and have it installed on each VM. Practically, I don't think its possible to use Chrome with Tor unless there is plug written for it. On the other hand, I've been using the TOR browser bundle for quite sometime now and really happy with how it works, they only issue is the browsing speed which can be painfully slow sometimes. Anyway, just my opinion.

You could use Nmap to do a scan throughout the network, to determine if there are any hosts alive prior to pen-testing. Or if you are on wireless network you could set your wireless card to monitor mode and use airmon-ng to monitor the traffic, any client that connects to your AP will be displayed on your screen. On a wired network, you would set your wired card to promiscuous mode and use Wireshark to capture the LAN traffic. And if anyone connects to the network, you will be to see their IP addresses.

What happens when you try to SSH to the router? Is the SSH daemon enabled and running on the router? Do you receive any error?

Good work and that's how you learn!

Did you enable IPv4 forwarding in the IP tables? Could you also provide the error you are receiving?

Or if you are really good, you could do some phishing attack, or do a bit of social engineering. If else fails, dump the hashes or use Ophcrack, simple as that?

Yeah, I'm yet to find a good tutorial, until then I'm still looking for one.

ESXI is definitely what you need, running that many vm instances will require a few cluster of servers for load balancing and performance purposes. I would suggest you to buy a couple of Dell servers, they are a bit cheap compared to other vendors and they can also be customized to your needs. Check out the Dell's T610 servers, http://www.dell.com/au/business/p/poweredge-t610/pd they are ideal candidates for small to medium server virtualization projects. Since you are running that many VMs, you should maximize the ram capacity in those servers, as well as look into ways for maximizing your server I/O performance, or things will get sluggish. SSDs are very good candidates for maximizing throughput, you might want to look into NAS devices, that supports them. Ensure your servers are using 10Gigabit Ethernet adapters, instead of 1Gigabit or else they will get saturated very quickly, if the servers are under heavy load. And that could affect the performance of other VMs as well Edit: You will find these links quite informative. http://www.vmworld.com/thread/3184 http://www.itworld.com/answers/topic/virtualization/question/how-many-virtual-machines-can-i-run-one-system

As a suggestion, you could add a mixture of both virtual machines and physical machines to your lab and experiment with both. Each will have their advantages of course, but it should make your lab more exciting and with more tools to work with. In addition, since its a pen-testing lab, you might want to include some WAPs (wireless access points) and use them to sharpen your wireless pen-testing skills as well.

I would definitely use virtual machines, making sure they are totally isolated from your production hosts (we don't want to exploit the wrong machine) or main network. On the main machine hosting the VMs, ensure it has plenty of RAM and a faster CPU, as well as if you can afford, install an SSD for increased I/O, and to have a good performance when running several VMs.

Merry Christmas to you too bro, and all the best for the new year. I just hope that bloody cyclone doesn't hit us.

A tutorial on how to use Airpwn And how to install Airpwn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd7dCLno64E

yeah, not sure if the password is going to be there afterwards, oh well its worth a try.

I wouldn't say Untangle was the best, but due to its ease of use and simplicity, it was a firewall distro I liked the most.

I've heard of Bitcoin miner before, but not sure how to use it. Will need to do some reading to understand it better, thanks everyone for the replies.

I have also found, that a 2900 mAh battery can last for roughly said 3 hours. Since the Pineapple consumes around 1 amp, you could use a portable battery like this one, to power it up for a full day or more, since it's a 7 amps battery. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/7AH-7-AMP-HOUR-BATTERY-AGM-SLA-UPS-ALARM-RECHARGABLE-12-VOLT-12V-BONUS-/290647064133?pt=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item43abea3e45#ht_1325wt_1252

What's the current voltage and amperage for a pineapple?

Not ClearOS, but have used Pfsense and other firewall distros?

If you want to create Vlans, I would suggest using a switch that is vlan capable it would be a lot easier to implement. Anyway, I found this Pfsense Vlan tutorial, might want to give it a crack at http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Multi-WAN_using_VLANs_with_pfSense Here's Pfsense forum thread. http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=30917.0

I live in Australia and I've spent around $5000.00 dollars to build it, in addition to upgrades parts I bought over the years I had it. Furthermore, I would be very lucky if I get $1000.00 dollars for it. Anyway, thanks for your input.