I am new here so take it easy on me. I have been using VB for some time now. I have recently moved into the realm of being a certified penetration tester and wanted to set up a lab for this purpose. I have spent countless hours online reading everyone's opinion on how to best do this. I came across an article that said you can simply set it up as a host-only network. I quickly made my adjustments with in VB by going to File>Preferences>Network. I made sure that the adapter was in fact there. Next I clicked on the screwdriver to make sure it was configured. By default there is 192.168.56.1/255.255.255.0 in these fields and DHCP was unchecked. I rebooted my machine and everything seemed to be fine. With KALI Linux as my platform and Kioptrix Lv1 as my target I was able to do a netdiscover to locate the IP and an nmap to find the ports. It was working perfectly.
Notice I said was... that night I turned off the VM and shutdown the windows host machine. I came back the next day and nothing works. I entered the ip addr command and saw that I was pulling an IP of 192.168.56.10. However, I cannot find the Kioptrix machine with netdiscover, and nmap reveals nothing. I tried the same config on my other two laptops 1 Mac and 1 PC ,as well as on my work PC - nothing. I tried to uninstall all machines and VB, re-download from source and re-install -nothing. Now no matter what I do, I cannot get it to work. Please for the love of God and my sanity, some one help me.
Host-Only Networking
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mpack
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Re: Host-Only Networking
I suggest you turn DHCP back on (which AFAIK is the default), and let the VM acquire an IP address automatically.
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BlackBox27
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Re: Host-Only Networking
mpack,
I appreciate the quick response. I failed to mention that I have tried it with DHCP settings as well, and still no success. However, I am not so arrogant as to not re-check my work. I will check this tonight when I get home and make sure that the settings are configured properly. Again, thank you for the response as any help is appreciated.
I appreciate the quick response. I failed to mention that I have tried it with DHCP settings as well, and still no success. However, I am not so arrogant as to not re-check my work. I will check this tonight when I get home and make sure that the settings are configured properly. Again, thank you for the response as any help is appreciated.
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noteirak
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Re: Host-Only Networking
Did you check what is the IP in the guest and try to ping/connect from the host?
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BlackBox27
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Re: Host-Only Networking
noteirak,
Unfortunately I cannot get into the host machine as it is a vulnerable machine that I do not yet have the password for. However, the previous post regarding the DHCP seemed to solve my issue. When I turned DHCP back on, I noticed that the default subnet mask was changed to 255.255.250.0. When I changed this to 255.255.255.0 it worked right away. Thank you for your response though, I really do appreciate the help.
Unfortunately I cannot get into the host machine as it is a vulnerable machine that I do not yet have the password for. However, the previous post regarding the DHCP seemed to solve my issue. When I turned DHCP back on, I noticed that the default subnet mask was changed to 255.255.250.0. When I changed this to 255.255.255.0 it worked right away. Thank you for your response though, I really do appreciate the help.