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So IPv6 is on the rise and I needed something simple to play with IPv6. I decided the best port of call would be spinning up a netkit lab inside a VM. I quickly built a light weight ubuntu 16.04×64 machine and installed netkit. (Installation is pretty simple, just follow the details on the homepage)

I then downloaded the Lab hosted here which is perfect and has everything you need to get things going. Thanks to S.Doro and others for this.

The next thing I wanted to do was add some specific tools to the images of each box, specifically THC tools and nmap so that I could practise host discovery techniques.

The easiest way to do this is to simply mount the virtual drive image, chroot into it and then apt-get what you want.

Now when you boot up the netkit lab you’ll have nmap and atk6-* tools at your disposal.

Updates for x64 ubuntu installs (thanks Hillier):

If error you need i386 packages:
https://blog.teststation.org/ubuntu/2016/05/12/installing-32-bit-software-on-ubuntu-16.04/

The next challenge I had was the current netkit base image used a depreciated mirror so I had to update my apt sources, I used:
https://gist.github.com/rohitrawat/60a04e6ebe4a9ec1203eac3a11d4afc1
Finally I wanted to test setting routing statically on a box and chose to extend the current lab. I added a second router between the pc1 and pc2 switches. To do this I did the following:

copy the r1.disk to r3.disk

create r3.startup

Added the following lines to lab.conf

Then when you are on PC1 you can test pinging over the default route to pc2. To break the route I went to a router and downed an interface to break the route. Then you can statically set a route on pc1 via the other router.