networking

How to Install and Use RDesktop in Linux

We can never remove the fact that some companies still use any other desktop operating systems from their network. Several reasons for these are due to commercial and propriety softwares and customized applications that currently being managed and needed by certain specific company departments, whether those clients are located remotely or just a single department [...]

How to use Nmap for Port Scanning in Linux

How to know which port is open from unmanaged remote host? How to determine running application and services from remote host? How to do basic port scanning against a host? How to confirm ports opened from remote host? Here are a several ways to do port scanning and know which port/services are currently opened from [...]

Nagios Monitoring – How to install and generic setup

A lot of powerful monitoring tools are freely available from linux world. One of them is Nagios. Nagios is a fairly complex linux monitoring tool that determines current status of target host or equipment. Two good things about Nagios is that Nagios supports web-enabled administration page and user view-only mode account. The other one is [...]

10 Tips for Wireless Home Network Security

1. Change Default Administrator Passwords (and Usernames) At the core of most Wi-Fi home networks is an access point or router. To set up these pieces of equipment, manufacturers provide Web pages that allow owners to enter their network address and account information. These Web tools are protected with a login screen (username and password) [...]

How to secure router or ADSL modem?

This article written on 20/09/2008 by Dinesh Suryavanshi, Sometimes we ignore little details, which is a bad thing – because others can use our negligence against us.Most routers and ADSL modems come with a web interface that is used to control and configure the device. The administration panel is accessed with a web-browser, and it [...]

How to Change Linux RunLevels

Runlevels on linux OS presents major differences on how your linux box will boot up and behave. Runlevels on linux changes a variety of execution patterns on loading up INIT process, environment, kernel modules, applications and services when booting up a linux box. In Linux, runlevels are represented by /etc/inittab text file. The default runlevel [...]

How to Display a Tree of Linux Processes

Everybody knows the benefit of having an overall idea and infrastructure connectivity of your own local network by looking at our own network diagram. In linux world, being aware and knowing what processes are currently running at all times is one good practice of managing your linux box. This practice involves monitoring of your memory [...]

How to Install IfTop Bandwidth Monitoring Tool

Here’s another bandwidth monitoring tool from linux console. Iftop is another console-based bandwidth monitoring tool available from linux. Iftop offers more feature that can be quite useful on monitoring bandwidth from console terminal. When executed, this bandwidth monitoring tool displays source and destination hosts currently passing thru its current selected interface(s).  Iftop can also display ports [...]

How to Install IPTraff LAN Monitoring Tool

IPTraf is a console-based network statistics utility and IP LAN monitoring tool for Linux. IPTraf gathers a variety of figures such as TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station packet and byte counts. IPTraff LAN Monitoring Tool IPTraf supports a wide variety of network statistics and [...]

How to Install NetSpeed Traffic Monitoring Applet

Now, if you want to monitor your network interface from GNOME X, here’s another linux network interface usage and monitoring tool you can use and install. Netspeed is a little GNOME-applet that shows how much traffic is currently passing thru on your specified network devices.  NetSpeed monitoring applet can show current network incoming and outgoing traffic from [...]

How to Install VnStat – Long-Term Traffic Monitoring via CLI

Another interface monitoring tool that logs and keeps track of past traffic usage and statistics is VnStat.  VnStat is a console-based long-term traffic monitoring utility that makes use monitors traffic usage and details and stores them into flat database for future comparison and statistical purpose. VnStat does not require root access and privilege to do [...]

How to Install Bandwidth Shaper – Trickle on Fedora

Shaping bandwidth traffic has been a usual part of job function from any IT company infrastructure providing online services to the web. From small scale company to enterprise scale, bandwidth shaping needs to be implemented and applied properly and effectively. Here’s one lightweight linux traffic shaper that makes use of existing network traffic shaping that [...]

How to Install VMWare Server on Fedora 8

Desktop virtualization has been continuously capturing users and web services. More and more companies are creating virtual machines and appliances that can be of productive service to many web users around the globe. From recent post, here’s a quick howto install VMWare Server on Fedora 8. VMWare Server Pre-Requirements VMWare Server package needs to compile its [...]

How to Create Vanishing Virtual Drive

You can work with your hard drives, network drives and other external or USB storage devices accomplishing critical linux hacks. Yes, technology nowadays have enabled us to make use of larger and more stable storage capacity drives and devices. Most firms and company services enjoy the benefits of having them as part of their IT [...]

How to Mount Windows Drive From Linux GUI

Are you searching for Network Neighborhood from your linux desktop? Have you been wondering how you can map a shared windows network drive from your linux desktop using GUI? Here’s another simple linux desktop howto on mapping shared windows folder from linux desktop. There are lots of way to achieve and map a shared windows [...]