I wanted to see what other people where saying about creating a hak lab.. I wondered why nobody has mentioned GNS3 as a solution... if you have some alright hardware you can set up some preety realistic situations that i just couldnt do with just vbox... i make little gns3 files that have different net setups... lets say, a router with an ids with multiple subnets with a desktop os on one subnet, a sinknet and a server etc... whatever you want... its actually preety legit as you can create networks that emulate real enviornments rather then just throw some vulns on your wifi... i have done some tutorials on vimeo on building gns3 networks... if you are going to get some serious hardware... i would say running gns3... you could build some serious gambits...
hope that gives you some more things to study and destroy your time... :D
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