On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 05:34:02PM +0100, Robin Wood wrote: > I'm a security researcher and I want to do some work on sniffing > traffic in VLANs and playing with VLAN hopping. Is it possible to > setup Open vSwitch in a way that I could do all this in a VirtualBox > environment? The kind of things I'm thinking of are: > > * start a bunch of machines on different VLANs then place a sniffer at > different points and see what it can see
OVS has the ability to mirror packets that arrive on given VLANs to a specified port or to another VLAN. Does that fit the bill here? > * put my on a specific VLAN then see if I can get on to others, i.e. > getting on the voice VLAN and hopping to a data one What kind of switch feature would help testing this? _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org
