Articles from ADMIN Issue 05
Professional attackers have much more pointed at your site than just Nmap, and you should too if you want to test your network's security. We'll show you some tools intruders use to gather information.
Fio can help you measure performance by simulating different loads and measuring bandwidth, I/O operations per second, latency, and CPU load.
The free Windows Performance Toolkit by Microsoft gives administrators the ability to analyze system performance and resolve issues.
Everybody needs backups; if you are looking for an open source program that will back up heterogeneous networks, you should check out Bacula.
Mlmmj is still a fairly unknown mailing list manager, but it's an interesting alternative to heavyweights such as Mailman.
Physical security is commonly overlooked in penetration testing; don't get caught without protection.
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 can handle this.
