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In a switched network environment, packets are sent to their destination port by MAC address. This process requires that the systems on the network maintain a table associating MAC addresses ... Intruders rely on ARP cache poisoning to conceal their presence on a local network. We'll show you some tools an attacker might use to poison the ARP cache and gather information on your network.
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) that can in turn be extended using the NetShell API. Among other tasks, NetShell lets you:
Configure network interfaces
Configure Windows Firewall
Display various network parameters
Configure ... Windows networks can be configured from a graphical interface, but if you want to explore all the functions, try using NetShell at the command line to configure TCP/IP stack parameters and network
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Spacewalk [1] is the open source derivative of the popular Red Hat Network Satellite Server. Red Hat published the source code for the server in the summer of 2008, and the community has now ... As your network grows, managing Linux systems manually becomes time consuming and impractical. Enter Spacewalk: an open source tool that takes the footwork out of network management.
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Network Access Protection (NAP) was introduced with Windows Server 2008 and gives the network administrator the ability to check a client's security status on network access. This process involves ... Mobile devices require special security considerations. In combination with IEEE 802.1X, Network Access Protection can ensure that mobile devices maintain the necessary security standards before they
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the advantage of never needing to transmit the password across the network, and tickets provide a single sign-on (SSO) option for users. In other words, once a user has authenticated against the Kerberos server ... Mobile users need a connection to the LDAP and Kerberos servers to authenticate over insecure IP networks. The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) helps plug this gap.
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your attention: In the Bacula system, each task is handled by a separate program. Tasks can include reading the data to be backed up and transferring them across the network, writing to the backup media ... Everybody needs backups; if you are looking for an open source program that will back up heterogeneous networks, you should check out Bacula.
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whether IPv6 can provide a full-fledged alternative to IPv4 on today's networks. Despite my initial euphoria, reality hit me hard during my testing sessions and turned this article into a report about my ... Most clients on a network need both an address and some environmental information such as a name server or a web proxy. This article investigates whether a recent operating system on an IPv6-only LAN
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managed switches support link aggregation, you should look at the data sheet to be sure. The same is true for IP-based iSCSI and NFS/CIFS storage systems. Servers need at least two network cards ... For once, admins and users agree: They want more resiliency and higher bandwidth on the network. Link aggregation, in line with IEEE 802.1ax b-2008, offers both – with some minor restrictions.
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it to a network repository. Once the patch is in the repository, the admin then tests the patch in a test or development environment. If any issues arise with the patch, the admin contacts whoever issued the patch ... Keep your whole network up to date with Satellite Server – an enterprise-ready patch management system closely tied to Red Hat's prolific update service.
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directly, but they use the network subsystem and are thus slower. Even with the potential detour of converting the qcow2 image to raw with qemu-img convert, you will still save a fair amount of time ... on the network.
