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‎06-05-2006 12:31 AM

Network Security Toolkit (NST) Virtual Machine

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/141

Best-of-breed open source network security applications with supporting scripts and a web-based front-end management interface.

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laray88
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‎06-06-2006 01:58 PM

Dosen't seem to boot properly

"unknown interrupt EIP" errors after splash screen

Tried to boot with VMPlayer and WKS 5.5.1

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laray88
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‎06-06-2006 07:43 PM

Nevermind - an updated version of Player semed to correct the issue

Nice appliance, I have used the Cd based vesions before. Glad to see this in a virtual.

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tleyman
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‎06-09-2006 02:16 PM

Nice appliance. Good for security types

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RP10
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‎06-12-2006 06:53 PM

I'm having the same problem - it appears I have the latest version of VMWare Player and I get the error also and it won't load.

I guess it's not good form to complain since it's free but I'm a bit curious why it works for some and not others....

I'm open to any hints- I've reinstalled VMPlayer and the NST so I don't know what else to try.

thanks!

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pblankenbaker
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‎06-13-2006 03:45 AM

What platform are you running your VMware Player on Linux or Windows?

One could try "Power Off and exit" from the Player menu bar under Player => troubleshoot.

Then restart the player.

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BBWIOC
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‎06-14-2006 09:25 PM

Where can I find a straight .zip download of this virtual machine rather than the offered "zip.torrent" download format?

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cocarl
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‎06-20-2006 03:20 PM

I would like to know this as well. I downloaded the nst-vms-1.4.1.zip.torrent file and tried to open it using BitTorrent, but got errors indicating a problem with the tracker:

\[2006-06-20 18:09:51] "nst-vm-1.4.1.zip" : Problem connecting to tracker -

Is a .zip file available at all? Or is there something else I'm doing wrong?

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pblankenbaker
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‎06-23-2006 09:44 PM

The NST Virtual Machine[/b] is now also available for download at the NST sourceforge.net site:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nst/nst-vm-1.4.1.zip?download

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felipel
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‎06-25-2006 03:08 PM

having the interrupt problem too...

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rlguye
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‎06-29-2006 10:07 PM

post removed

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mikejones1919
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‎07-01-2006 06:10 AM

Curious - What's the advantage of using this VM over simply booting the NST ISO from a "dummy" VM (that is, with little or no HD & the ISO as the cdrom)?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nst

That's how I've been doing it for a long time. Just curious if this is a better solution for some reason.

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rwhAlbany
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‎07-01-2006 06:11 PM

Please refer to the NST VMware FAQ on "[b]Why I Would Want To Run NST Within a Virtual Machine[/b]":

http://nst.sourceforge.net/nst/docs/faq/ch13.html

---rwh[/b]

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pblankenbaker
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‎07-10-2006 05:51 PM

Ron was able to replicate the interrupt issue that you and another person have encountered.

We included a SMP kernel in our distribution (this allows people to make use of more than one CPU if they desire to do so). Unfortunately, we've discovered (well after the contest ended) that some systems can not boot the SMP kernel. Ron came across a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop which has this issue. Interestingly enough, the Dell Inspiron 8200 does not have this issue.

There is no work around other than to boot the NST Virtual Machine on a different system.

We will distribute a non-SMP kernel in the 1.4.2 release of the NST.

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Turbo8u
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‎08-03-2006 04:32 AM

Thanks for the VM. I have been testing and found that I cannot run this VM in the Enterprise Server 1.0 but it does work fine in a VMPlayer.

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DRGnetwork
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‎08-17-2006 11:29 AM

I must be doing something wrong. The root password nst@2003 does not work on the 1.4.2 VM I downloaded from sourceforge.

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DRGnetwork
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‎08-17-2006 11:36 AM

Got it! No @.

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laray88
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‎08-17-2006 12:21 PM

Yep- got me too

RTFM Smiley Happy

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kevinsonney
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‎08-25-2006 10:48 AM

It is just me or does the root/nst@2003 password not work?

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pblankenbaker
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‎08-31-2006 04:14 AM

Unfortunately, we changed the default access to root/[b]nst2003[/b] in the 1.4.2 release (removed the '@' character).

We didn't like making the change, but there have been a number of international users which have pointed out that the '@' symbol is difficult to enter (changing keyboard mappings isn't possible until you log in).

We posted this information in many different locations:

\- The README file which is included in the ZIP

\- The online FAQ

\- Our home page

\- Our VMware page (right below the link to the new 1.4.2 release)

\- Its posted in this forum by other users

Hopefully we will never need to change the default password again.

Paul

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