I'm interested in learning more about TCP/IP. I don't want anything <I>too</I> technical but I'd like to learn about the various parts of a packet and how to read it. I'd also like to see packets ...

In a column about syslog [see “syslog Configuration” in the December 2001 issue of LJ] I mentioned “stealth logging”--by running your central log server without an IP address, you can hide your ...

A few years ago I tried my hand at hacking and whatnot. I got ahold of some packet sniffing programs and tried to sniff out packets meant for others. It never happened. I was not able to sniff ...

The tools known as network sniffers are named after a product called the Sniffer Network Analyzer. Introduced in 1988 by Network General Corp. (now Network Associates Inc.), the Sniffer was one of the ...

Juliet is the senior web editor for StateTech and HealthTech magazines. In her six years as a journalist she has covered everything from aerospace to indie music reviews — but she is unfailingly ...

Imagine this: you're sitting in your local coffee shop sucking down your morning caffeine fix before heading into the office. You catch up on your work e-mail, you check Facebook and you upload that ...

Need a simple-to-use yet highly flexible intrusion detection package? If so, look no further than Snort. This Linux utility might be just what you need for network traffic monitoring, and Jim McIntyre ...

In the previous article, I discussed the installation of three open-source packages on a computer running Linux to capture useful network statistics. Using Linux is economical simply because it can ...