| Useful freeware network management programs |
| Nagios: |
Network monitoring and alerting |
| ntop: |
A network traffic probe |
| Cacti: | A network and server graphing program |
| SmokePing: | A network latency (ping) graphing program |
| Nessus: | A network vulnerability scanner (may not be free anymore) |
| Snort: | An intrusion and prevention program |
| PuTTY: | A free Telnet/SSH client |
| Ethereal: | A network protocol analyzer |
| Getif: | Windows GUI based snmp walker |
| NetStumbler: | Wireless network LAN detection tool |
| Nmap: | Network exploration and security auditing utility |
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Auditing specific Windows Events
NEW - Added 5/22/09 |
A freeware way to audit Windows Event Logs for specific events, and capture those events to a list that can be audited. |
| Mount an NTFS share on a Fedora Core 4 box |
- Create a mount directory (e.g. /mnt/directory)
- mount -t cifs //computername/share_name /mnt/directory
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| Enabling SUDO on Fedora Core 4 |
Use visudo as the root to add the desired user to the sudoers file. Add the following example: username ALL=(ALL) ALL
%groupname ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL |
| NetMeeting on Windows XP |
Although, you may not have been able to find NetMeeting for Windows XP it's there. Follow these simple instuctions to install or remove NetMeeting from your Windows XP machine. |
| Subnet mask cheat sheet |
A cheat sheet that you can use to figure out IP networks and subnet masks. This document will also give you the inverse subnet mask, necessary for Cisco router ACL commands. |
| Hints and tricks for the GIMP |
This documet contains some of my most used hints and tricks for processing images with the GIMP. At best, I am an amateur, so these tips may seem very basic to most of you. |
| Cygwin/X over SSH on Windows |
This documet will walk you through how to install Cygwin/X on your Windows computer and connect to the KDE desktop on a remote Linux host. |
| Alteon (Nortel Networks) AD3 to Cisco console adapter |
This document is the pin-out for a DB9 adapter so you can use a standard Cisco console cable to connect to the console port of a AceDirector3 (and possibly other versions), instead of using a DB9 serial cable. |
| An updated Mysql (4.0) import script for SnortNotify |
I updated the import script to that it will properly build the table and rows in Mysql 4.0. |
| T1 cross-over cable |
This is a link to a diagram of a T1 cross-over cable. You will need this cable to connect two Cisco router via T1 DSU/CSU interfaces. |