There are software packets for Web, FTP or Telnet server. Oh yes, you can use ye olde DOS with packet driver and TCP stack as client or even a small server. That means that we can use any operating system on the hosts, from DOS over Windows to Linux and UNIX. They only should be able to communicate over the TCP/IP protocols. We do not need any special feature on the hosts used for the presentation. To expand the possibilities, we will use different versions of the RouterOS – in a real-life you can’t expect to always be working with the latest version. We are presenting the Mikrotik RouterOS capabilities and we will use the software based RouterOS x86 versions. Therefore, we need to have routers and some clients and servers, commonly referred as hosts.
We will demonstrate the network connections in this series. We can further choose the appropriate VMs that will serve us in that demonstration. Inside this frame, we can then specify the testing procedures and expected results. Whenever we want to simulate a specific scenario, regardless of whether it is the network testing, OS evaluation or application development (just to name a few), we need to establish a testing frame. You can find my guides about VBox environment here and here. You should only optimize your VMs based on the settings related to your environment. We don’t need any special features of the virtualization solution. I will present how we can simulate most common scenarios them in virtual environment.Īlthough I am using Oracle VirtualBox (referred to as VBox from here on out) for these demonstrations, you can use any other virtualization solution in a very similar way. It is the second part of the Mikrotik IPSec series and, at the same time, a short virtualization guide.
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