Home Lab Setup Part 2 of 3
Details
A home lab with no targets is just a fancy VM manager. In Part 2 of the Home Lab Setup series, we get operational — adding your attack machine, standing up your first target, and making sure everything can actually talk to each other.
🎯 What We'll Cover
- Installing and configuring Kali Linux as your attack machine
- Setting up Metasploitable 2 as your first target VM
- Network segmentation
— keeping lab traffic off your home network
- Snapshot strategy
— saving and restoring VM states before and after testing
- Verification: confirming your attacker and target can see each other
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