AMILABS Lab Servers
 

The lab has three servers available for your research and training needs. There is a main Windows 2003 server and two other Windows/Linux servers. You can Telnet into these servers over the VPN to run command line utilities and console based applications as well as develop console based applications. The servers are also accessible via a Windows Terminal Sever, Windows RDP or Virtual Network Computing(VNC) so you can access the GUI based applications(protocol analyzers etc.) and utilities for your research and studies. Each server has two 10/100/1000Base-T  Ethernet, interfaces installed for IP, IPX, Netbui/Netbios, DLC and other protocols. The servers can act as a client or server for various applications. One such use is Multicast testing. The second adapter can also be your sniffer adapter to a switch SPAN port or connected to a Gigabit Ethernet port on any switch for Gigabit Ethernet based traffic and application testing needs.
 

Server Hardware                                                                                                               

Any of the servers can run LINUX in a dual boot or Virtual

Windows Server - WIN2KSRV

A Windows 2003 server running DNS, DHCP, WINS, Media Services, TFTP, FTP, Telnet, IIS and all of the other Windows services available under a standard Windows 2000 server.

The windows server WIN2KSRV is your main resource of tools, tutorials and utilities in the lab. Getting familiar with this server is important so you can get the most out of your lab experience. The Lab Manual will cover instructions on how to access the server and the more popular applications that you will most likely use. Remember, there is plenty of "good stuff" on this server, like RFC indexes, protocol tutorials and so forth, so take advantage of all this information that is located at one source. Refer to the lab manual or the Lab Applications link for additional information about applications stored on this server.
 

A Note about the Lab Servers
 

These servers are basically “SCRATCH PAD”  or "SAND BOX" servers for your educational and research experience. What this means is that you have ROOT and Administrator level access to these servers to do whatever you need to do. Please be careful and do not shut down any services and daemons unless you know what you are doing. Since these are open servers, other folks will be accessing them so please do not screw it up for the other users. If theses servers are abused in any manner then AMILABS will lock down their capabilities and access. These servers are available for your benefit and the etiquette of use in this lab is based on the honor system. So please be careful and cognizant of other users.

Note: you may have to fiddle around with some Windows/Linux settings to get some of the applications to work properly. Sorry, but that is the nature of an open system with various commercial, demo and beta applications installed.