Carla Schroder

Kismet is a slick packet-sniffer for wireless networks. If you've ever had a hankering to go war-driving, install Kismet on your laptop, connect a good

Darkstat is a lightweight network traffic grapher run from a router that collects traffic statistics, exports them to HTML pages and serves up the pages

In some cases, it means nothing. In other cases, it means fewer loopholes to exploit. The discussion and debate over the wording of GPL3 has crept into

In the large and bewildering world of network managers, we are inching ever-closer to the network administrator's ultimate dream: magic network monitors

Nearly everyone has heard of the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack — four great tastes that taste great together. They are the foundation of

Both the commercial and open source worlds are crammed to the gills with network monitoring software and appliances. Are you paying a high price to get a

Using ssh for remote administration on Linux systems is easy and secure. But if you have multiple files to edit, it can get a bit cumbersome juggling

Yes, today's tip is about Yet Another Messaging Server. This time Citadel. And why not? The free/open source software world is full of messaging servers,

Admins of medium to large networks ought to try out Netdisco, which has nothing to do with dancing and everything to do with network discovery. Netdisco

Bandwidth Monitor New Generation (bwm-ng) is a neat little console-based live bandwidth monitor for Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and any other Unix-type

The Linux world contains a wealth of rescue disks for administrators of mixed networks. In the beginning was Tom's Root Boot, "the most GNU/Linux on 1

A paper notebook can be a perfectly good tool for managing computer passwords. It requires no power to use. It can be safely locked up. It's inexpensive