Homelab Part 5: Kali and Metasploitable Target Access

In Part 4, I created the Docker platform. In this part, I add the first classic offensive-security pair: Kali as the attacker and Metasploitable as the intentionally vulnerable target. Both machines live in the PENTEST VLAN. This keeps practice traffic away from the rest of the lab until I deliberately allow a path through pfSense. What I Built Segment: PENTEST VLAN: 40 Gateway: 10.10.40.1 Kali IP: 10.10.40.102 Metasploitable: 10.10.40.100 ‹ › ...

2026-05-25 · 3 min · plumy