Resources
We recommend these resources for learning more about the various aspects of wireless networking. For more links and resources, see our website at wndw.net.
Antennas and antenna design
Network troubleshooting tools
- Cacti network monitoring package, www.cacti.net
- DSL Reports bandwidth speed tests, www.dslreports.com/stest
- Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) network protocol analyzer, www.wireshark.org
- Iperf network performance testing tool, dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf
- iptraf network diagnostic tool, iptraf.seul.org
- MRTG network monitoring and graphing tool, people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg
- My TraceRoute network diagnostic tool, www.bitwizard.nl/mtr
- Nagios network monitoring and event notification tool, www.nagios.org
- Ntop network monitoring tool, www.ntop.org
- RRDtool round robin database graphing utility, people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool
- SmokePing network latency and packet loss monitor, people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping
- SoftPerfect network analysis tools, www.softperfect.com
- Squid transparent http proxy HOWTO, en.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/TransparentProxy-2.html
- ttcp network performance testing tool, ftp.arl.mil/ftp/pub/ttcp
- A comparison of packet sniffers and network analysis tools, comparitech.com
Security
- AntiProxy http proxy circumvention tools and information, www.antiproxy.com
- Anti-spyware tools, www.spychecker.com
- Driftnet network monitoring utility, www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/driftnet
- Etherpeg network monitoring utility, www.etherpeg.org
- Introduction to OpenVPN, www.linuxjournal.com/article/7949
- Lavasoft Ad-Aware spyware removal tool, www.lavasoft.de
- OpenSSH secure shell and tunneling tool, openssh.org
- OpenVPN encrypted tunnel setup guide, openvpn.net/howto.html
- Privoxy filtering web proxy, www.privoxy.org
- PuTTY SSH client for Windows, www.putty.nl
- Sawmill log analyzer, www.sawmill.net
- Security of the WEP algorithm, www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html
- Spyware prevention for Windows XP (German), www.xp-antispy.de
- Stunnel Universal SSL Wrapper, www.stunnel.org
- TOR onion router, tor.eff.org
- Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4, www.crypto.com/papers/others/rc4_ksaproc.ps
- Windows SCP client, winscp.net
- Your 802.11 Wireless Network has No Clothes, www.cs.umd.edu/~waa/wireless.pdf
- ZoneAlarm personal firewall for Windows, www.zonelabs.com
Bandwidth optimization
Mesh networking
Wireless operating systems and drivers
Wireless tools
- Chillispot captive portal, www.chillispot.org
- Interactive Wireless Network Design Analysis Utilities, www.qsl.net/n9zia/wireless/page09.html
- KisMAC wireless monitor for Mac OS X, kismac.binaervarianz.de
- Kismet wireless network monitoring tool, www.kismetwireless.net
- MacStumbler wireless network detection tool for Mac OS X, www.macstumbler.com
- NetStumbler wireless network detection tool for Windows and Pocket PC, www.netstumbler.com
- NoCatSplash captive portal, nocat.net/download/NoCatSplash
- PHPMyPrePaid prepaid ticketing system, sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyprepaid
- RadioMobile radio performance modeling tool, www.cplus.org/rmw
- Terabeam wireless link calculation tools, www.terabeam.com/support/calculations/index.php
- Wellenreiter wireless network detection tool for Linux, www.wellenreiter.net
- WiFiDog captive portal, www.wifidog.org
- Wireless Network Link Analysis tool by GBPRR, my.athenet.net/~multiplx/cgi-bin/wireless.main.cgi
General wireless related information
- DefCon long distance WiFi shootout, www.wifi-shootout.com
- Homebrew wireless hardware designs, www.w1ghz.org
- Linksys wireless access point information, linksysinfo.org
- Linksys WRT54G resource guide, seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/LinksysWrt54g
- NoCat community wireless group, nocat.net
- POE guide by NYCWireless, nycwireless.net/poe
- Ronja optical data link hardware, ronja.twibright.com
- SeattleWireless community wireless group, seattlewireless.net
- SeattleWireless Hardware comparison page, www.seattlewireless.net/HardwareComparison
- Stephen Foskett's Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Calculator, www.gweep.net/~sfoskett/tech/poecalc.html
Networking hardware vendors
Networking services
Training and education
Miscellaneous links
- Cygwin Linux-like environment for Windows, www.cygwin.com
- Graphvis graph visualization tool, www.graphviz.org
- ICTP bandwidth simulator, wireless.ictp.trieste.it/simulator
- ImageMagick image manipulation tools and libraries, www.imagemagick.org
- NodeDB war driving map database, www.nodedb.com
- Open Relay DataBase, www.ordb.org
- Partition Image disk utility for Linux, www.partimage.org
- RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1918
- Spectropolis NYC art project, www.spectropolis.info
- Ubuntu Linux, www.ubuntu.com
- wget web utility for Windows, xoomer.virgilio.it
- WiFiMaps war driving map database, www.wifimaps.com
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