Custom Network Topology Setup

Jatin Lodhi
3 min readApr 19, 2021

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Do you think 🤔💭 we Create a network Topology Setup in such a way System A can ping to two Systems System B and System C but both these systems should not be pinging each other without using any security rule e.g firewall etc .

So here we go …….

Pre-requisite * 3 VM ( Virtual Machine )

Q To find How Create a network Topology Setup ❓

In My Case* IP of System -A :- 192.168.43.251* IP of System -B :- 192.168.43.159* IP of System -C :- 192.168.43.51

→ First I will show you all 3 VM are connected each other

System - A is connected to System -B & System -C
  • Here you see that all are connected to each other

Q But our requirement is different

→ First we clean our route table run below mentioned command

route del -net 0.0.0.0route del -net <IP> gw 0.0.0.0 netmask <IP>
  • At that if you want to ping any IP it shows NETWORK IS UNREACHABLE

→ Now our requirement is System B & C Connect to System A

→ For this we have to add some rule which allow that particular IP`s but remember one point here I did`nt use any firewall rule .

If you want to System B & C Connect to System A use mentioned below command in SYSTEM -B & SYSTEM -C

route add -net <IP of system-A> netmask 255.255.255.255 enp0s3

→ Now again check route table

route -n

→ Check SYSTEM -C ping to SYSTEM -B or vice versa .

It shows Network is Unreachable

→ Then ping to System -A

System -A Successfully pinging

ping <IP of System B & C>
It shows Network is Unreachable
ping <IP of System A>
System -A Successfully pinging

Here you can see that System -A Successfully pinging .

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Jatin Lodhi

I am an IT Enthusiast, who is passionate about exploring/learn all the latest technologies from research perspective.