Re: Virtual Network testing

From: Rajeev Kumar (rajeev@rajeevnet.com)
Date: 09/12/01 

Message-Id: <200109122045.f8CKjgs27967@atrica.fluent.com>
From: Rajeev Kumar <rajeev@rajeevnet.com>
To: Stuart_Luscombe@computacenter.com, pen-test@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Virtual Network testing
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:45:41 -0400

Basically you are asking hardware emulation for hosts, routers, switches in
software. For i386 machine emulation you can use vmware (for Linux and NT)
and you can create many PC within one PC desktop environment and can setup as
hosts and routers. Not sure how you to emulate Switches and HUB.
http://www.vmware.com
Rajeev

On Wednesday 12 September 2001 07:09, Stuart_Luscombe@computacenter.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This may be a bit of a stupid question, but is there a piece of
> software that allows you to
> run a virtual network? Allowing you to add in routers, hosts, switches etc.
> and then test the affect
> of changes to that environment without actually have to affect the live
> environment.
>
> An example of a use for this would be if a specific router went down, who
> would it affect?
> Or, if a virus were to get onto the network (hopefully the AV would get it
> first), how would it spread?
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Regards 

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