Vagrant-based personal network lab - IPv6 Security

This is a small self contained lab for playing with IPv6 security tools. It uses VirtualBox to run a virtual Linux server hosting a few LXD containers running Ubuntu Linux. For a convenient access to the consoles of the virtual routers, ttyd is used to provide web-based terminal access.

The lab is highly customizable using Vagrant to provide the virtual server and Ansible to do the configuration. It should work on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Installation of the pre-packaged release (recommended)

1. Install VirtualBox
2. Install Vagrant
3. Create an empty folder (for instance ~/ripencc/ipv6seclab)
4. Open a terminal window, enter the empty directory (using cd command) directory and run vagrant init ripencc/ipv6seclab followed by vagrant up
5. Wait a few minutes until vagrant finishes downloading the VM image. The size of the image is approximatelly 2 GiB.
6. Access the lab environment by pointing your web browser to http://localhost:8080/

Stopping, restarting and destroying the lab

Then, you can turn off the VM by running vagrant halt in the same directory you run vagrant up before. You can use the latter command to restart the lab later.

You can destroy the lab environment by issuing vagrant destroy. A subsequent call of vagrant up will bring up a completely fresh environment.

Upgrading to a new version of the lab

From time to time, a new version of the lab is released. You can spot it by the contents of version.txt file. If you want to upgrade, run these commands:

vagrant destroy
vagrant box update
vagrant up

Resolving port conflict

In case there is some other software listening on local port 8080, Vagrant will refuse to start. You can either stop the offending software or adjust Vagrantfile to change the port number. For example, this is how you move the environment from port 8080 to port 8081:

config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080, host_ip: "127.0.0.1", id: "web", disabled: true
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8081, host_ip: "127.0.0.1"

Then you can find the lab environment on http://localhost:8081/

Running the development version

You can also clone or download this repository and run vagrant up there. This should build a completely new environment from scratch.