Re: Few interesting topics in Network Security please.

[James Grace <e1photon () gmail com>]

Nazier,
1) BGP stands for Border Gateway Protocol.  It's the main routing  
protocol of the Internet.

2) Iperf is a great tool that tests the throughput of connections(ie:  
"How fast is this connection?  Oh yeah! iperf will tell me!")

3) mrtg/cricket is a neat tool for gathering information from managed  
systems, like routers and switches.  Cricket can be found here:http://cricket.sourceforge.net/

4) Pcap is a library for capturing packets.  Ethereal, tcpdump,  
wireshark all use a form of pcap library.

> James Grace
> Network Engineer
> Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment
> Florida International University, Miami, Fl

On Apr 29, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Cassiem, Nazier A wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> As a new comer to IT security,please outline what these do/mean :
>
> gp modeling, iperf, mrtg/cricket, and pcap.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Nazier
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> ] On Behalf Of James Grace
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 8:03 PM
> To: Rivest, Philippe
> Cc: Jon.Kibler () aset com; KishoreKumar Bairi; security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Few interesting topics in Network Security please.
>
> I am a big fan of teaching/learning:
>
> bgp modeling, iperf, mrtg/cricket, and pcap.
>
> James Grace
> Network Engineer
> Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment Florida  
> International University, Miami, Fl
>
>
> On Apr 28, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Rivest, Philippe wrote:
>
> > I would strongly consider matching Wireshark and a MITM attack
> > subject(Appz id: Cain & Abel). I cant belive how no body knows what
> > MITM is and how one would use this technique to steal info. It is
> > really important. Also, show some consideration to IP spoofing. I
> > would not spend days on these 2 subject, but a few demo & details
> > would greatly open the eyes of fresh IT eyes :)
> >
> > Merci
> >
> > Philippe Rivest, Certified Ethical Hacker
> >
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> > De : listbounce () securityfocus com
> > [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] De la part de Jon Kibler  
> > Envoyé
> > : lundi 28 avril 2008 10:24 À : KishoreKumar Bairi Cc :
> > security-basics () securityfocus com Objet : Re: Few interesting topics
> > in Network Security please.
> >
> > KishoreKumar Bairi wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am a student. Who is doing project under a professor. In our
> > > university from next year a new course on NETWORKING is going to be
> > > started. My task is to design "lab experiments" for that course.
> > >
> > > Can you please suggest few experimental ideas, that will help a
> > > newbie in Networking field.
> > >
> > > Note: "Network Security" is also included.
> >
> > Three things that students are not getting in network courses that  
> > are
> > CRITICAL to the real world:
> >   1) Low level understanding of protocols
> >   2) Routing
> >   3) Packet filtering
> >
> > Some tools I would recommend as absolute requirements for the course:
> >   wireshark
> >   nmap
> >   traceroute
> >   ping
> >   arping
> >   hping
> >   dsniff
> >   gobbler
> >   ettercap
> >   hunt
> >   yersina
> >   firewalk
> >   iptables
> >   snort (if you get into IDS)
> >   quagga (for routing)
> >
> >
> > If you get into protocol errors / DOS:
> >   jolt
> >   land
> >   nestea
> >   smurf
> >   fraggle
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> >
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