Archive for 'Network' Category
Network Exploration Using NmapFE
16 November 2006Introduction
nmap is a free utility which is used to scan large as well as small networks to determine the services running, operating systems used, application versions etc. It proves to be a very effective tool that can be used by anyone to explore their network.
nmapfe is a GTK+ graphical front end to nmap. We look […]
Accessing GNU/Linux Systems Remotely
6 October 2006It is not infrequent that you may have a need to access your GNU/Linux desktop remotely. In such cases VNC comes to the rescue.
We’ll just look at how easily you can access your remote desktops.
I’ll be using Gentoo GNU/Linux system as the client system and Suse GNU/Linux is the system I want to access remotely
Just […]
Use ip to control network interfaces
29 September 2006ip is a part of iproute2 package and is a kind of universal tool to configure interfaces, assign addresses, adding/deleting routes etc. The current trend is towards using ip and the use of ifconfig, route etc will be reduced. We’ll look at few of the tasks performed by ip. The complete documentation is available here.
Note […]
Running your own private IRC Network
31 August 2006We all use IRC to connect popular networks such as freenode, IRCNet etc. Let’s see how easy it is to setup our own private IRC network.
Let’s use ngIRCd as the IRC daemon and X-Chat 2 as the IRC client. I’ll be using Gentoo GNU/Linux distribution to install these utilities.
Installing ngIRCd on Gentoo
First download and […]
An excursion with SSH
2 August 2006SSH is used to securely login into remote systems. It also makes secure file transfers possible with its scp and sftp utilities. We’ll look briefly how to use SSH for our daily tasks.
As SSH is essentially a protocol, many implementations of it are available, the most common being OpenSSH. We’ll use OpenSSH in all our […]