Lately I’ve started working more and more with EVE-NG to test various network scenarios, automation and in general to try and learn something everyday.
If you’re familiar with EVE-NG, you know where to find various Linux images which you can download and install . Very helpful indeed, however all of them are coming without any pre-installed tools which I need for network oriented tests. I need Python, IPerf, Ansible, various Python libraries for network automation, etc.
Basically every time when I setup a new lab in EVE-NG, I need to make sure that the Linux image has a connection to Internet to download all these tools. Doable, but too much time consuming.
Lately EVE-NG has the Pro version, where you have Docker images which support some of the tools for a network engineer needs to test automation. If you already have EVE-NG Pro, then maybe this is a bit redundant. However if you’re still using the Community version, it may sounds interesting.
I’ve developed the Ubuntu (18.04) image using the same tools that you can find in my Docker image (Ubuntu 16:04 Pfne):
* If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, please read my previous post.
- Openssl
- Net-tools (ifconfig..)
- IPutils (ping, arping, traceroute…)
- IProute
- IPerf
- TCPDump
- NMAP
- Python 2
- Python 3
- Paramiko (python ssh support)
- Netmiko (python ssh support)
- Ansible (automation)
- Pyntc
- NAPALM
The image is hosted on my Firstdigest Project at Sourceforge.
If you are in a hurry, download directly using this link: Ubuntu 18.04 Pfne for EVE-NG.
For convenience here are the steps, but if you run into trouble be sure to check the EVE-NG Documentation.
- Download the image
- Using favorite SFTP Client (WinSCP, FileZilla) connect to your EVE-NG and upload the image to the location: /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/
- Connect via SSH to your EVE-NG machine and go to location:
cd /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/
- Unzip your uploaded image file.
tar xzvf linux-ubuntu-server-18.04-pfne.tar.gz
- Remove the archived image file (be sure to have a copy somewhere to avoid you have to download it again)
rm -f linux-ubuntu-server-18.04-pfne.tar.gz
- Fix permissions
/opt/unetlab/wrappers/unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions
The image comes with the following predefined username and password (security was not the point here):
User: root Password: root
User: pfne Password: pfne
With this image you have everything ready for your tests. You want to test QoS? Just design a network and two (client / server pair) machine using this image and push some packets with IPerf. Or maybe you want to test some automation. Here you have it, just start playing with.
Btw, I assume you have the EVE-NG installed. If not and you’re into learning topics, I’ll advise you to install this great application. You can start with Community version which is free (and honestly has enough features for most of the self-teaching engineers out there) and if you feel like go with the Pro version.
Let me know if you find it useful. In case of problems, please comment and I’ll try to help in my spare time.