6. Linux Networking Links

• DNS HOWTO: Set up a cacheing-only name server

• Linux Router Project

  Another one-floppy install that allows one to a cheap IA-32 box into a router/terminal server. There are plans for SNMP and web-based configuration.

• Linux Router Project - Now with their own domain name...

• Linux and Cable Modem Information

• EPAN - Ethernet Protocol Analyzer

• TLEDS - Use Keyboard LEDs to monitor Network activity

• DECnet for Linux

• SAMBA

• Linux SNA

  This project seeks to provide freely available software tools to interoperate with IBM's System Network Architecture.

• Linux CMU SNMP Project

• gxsnmp - the GNOME SNMP Network Management Application

• Perl chat

  Based on a state machine representation based on tuples containing the four values:

  • Current State

  • Expected input

  • Output that should be provided

  • Next state

  [# Login state machine. [START, "", "ATZ", MODEM_RESET], [MODEM_RESET, "OK", "ATDT555-1234", DIALING], [DIALING, "CONNECT", "", CONNECTED], [DIALING, "BUSY", "", FAIL], [DIALING, "NO CARRIER", "", FAIL], [DIALING, "NO DIALTONE", "", FAIL], [CONNECTED, "NO CARRIER", "", FAIL], [CONNECTED, "ogin:", "joe", PASSWD], [PASSWD, "assword:", "secret", LOGGED_IN], # One of my ISP servers prompts between unix and ppp. The rest don't. [LOGGED_IN, "Please choose your connection type", "", CHOOSE_PPP], [CHOOSE_PPP, "Please enter choice -:>", "2", LOGGED_IN], [LOGGED_IN, "PPP Ready.", "", END]]

• Linux Firewall and Security Site

• Netenv

  Tools to allow a mobile system such as a laptop to be easily configured to operate on several networks.

  (hosted at SourceForge )

• Low Cost Wireless LAN HOWTO

• Linux Wireless LAN HOWTO

• Wireless LAN resources for Linux

• tcpdump usage

• WWW Resources for Communications & Networking Technologies - eIT.in

  A pretty big, comprehensive web page on networking. In part, it's a big "link farm" to other web sites on the topic. I've seen far less useful "link farms"...