Charly's Column The Sysadmin’s Daily Grind: Arpalert
Nov 30, 2006Corporate policies prohibit the unauthorized connection of hardware to the company network, threatening dire consequences in the case of non-compliance. Fair enough, but how do you actually go about catching somebody trying to plug an illegal laptop into your Ethernet?
more »Ask Klaus!
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Charly's Column The Sysadmin’s Daily Grind: Ethtool
Mar 31, 2006A touchy LAN that plays like a movie diva can spoil any admin’s day. Ethtool to the rescue!
more »Netfilter L7 Blocking protocols at Layer 7 with the L7 patch
Feb 28, 2006If you need a tool for filtering protocols that doesn’t depend on the port, try L7, an IPTables patch that operates through regular expressions.
more »TCP Hijacking Understanding and preventing TCP attacks
Aug 31, 2005It is quite easy to take a TCP connection down using a RST attack, and this risk increases with applications that need long-term connections, such as VPNs, DNS zone transfers, and BGP. We’ll describe how a TCP attack can happen, and we’ll show you some simple techniques for protecting your network.
more »Charly's Column The Sysadmin’s Daily Grind: Smokeping
Apr 30, 2005If you do not receive a response to a ping, or if the response is seriously delayed, you might like to take this as a warning. But who wants to ping all day? You need a ping-based monitoring utility like Smokeping.
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