Test environment setup

[hyzzle]

I have pieced together a decent spare pc and would like to setup it up for penetration testing. What would be the best way to do this (within my own environment of course)?

 

[Herc08]

You want to do a pen test on your network from the computer? You want to have another computer on the network and try to get it. Check to see if ports are open. Wireshark and Nmap are great resources for pen testing.

 

[bill001g]

You could hook the PC to the WAN port of your router and then manually set the ip addresses so it appears your test pc is on the internet.

Still I would be extremely surprised if you find anything even half interesting. As long as you have no ports forwarded in your router nothing can get in. The NAT in the router just because it is too stupid to know what internal machine to send unsolicited traffic to will just drop it.