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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition
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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition

by Donald A. Tevault
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
15h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Hands-on lab – creating an IPFire virtual machine

You won't normally run IPFire in a virtual machine. Instead, you'll install it on a physical machine that has at least two network interfaces. But, just for the sake of letting you see what it looks like, setting it up in a virtual machine will do for now. Let's get started:

You can download IPFire from their website: https://www.ipfire.org/
  1. Create a virtual machine with two network interfaces. Set one to Bridged mode and leave the other in NAT mode. Install IPFire into this virtual machine. During the setup portion, select the Bridged adapter as the Green interface and select the NAT adapter as the Red interface.
  2. After you install IPFire, you'll need to use the web browser of your normal ...
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ISBN: 9781838981778