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^{pop Active SNMP An SNMP network management application with a Web-browser interface implemented in Java. From CS Software.}	Hits: 4923 Rating: 10.00 Rate it Comment on it

^{pop AdmWin Toolkit for Windows network administrators. Runs on Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.}	Hits: 3354 Rating: 6.00 Rate it Comment on it

^{pop Advanced Administrative Tools "It is an 11-in-1 utility, including TCP/UDP Security Port Scanner, Proxy Analyzer, Trace Route, Email Verifier, Links Analyzer, Whois, Network Monitor, Process Monitor, System Info, Resource Viewer, Registry Cleaner." Windows.}	Hits: 3892 Rating: 9.00 Rate it Comment on it

^{pop Bing A free point-to-point bandwidth measurement tool based on ping.}	Hits: 2787 Rating: 1.00 Rate it Comment on it

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Ethereal
"Ethereal is a free network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It allows you to examine data from a live network or from a capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the capture data, viewing summary and detail information for each packet. Ethereal has several powerful features, including a rich display filter language and the ability to view the reconstructed stream of a TCP session."}

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^{pop Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) "A tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing PNG images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this traffic." Free.}	Hits: 2943 Rating: 7.45 Rate it Comment on it

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Nebula
"Linmor's Nebula Performance Monitor suite empowers network professionals to proactively manage network performance and eliminate outages while reducing operating and capital expenditures. Nebula Evaluation is an easy to install subset of Nebula Performance Monitor functionality. It provides an easy way to isolate and analyze hot-spots on your network, automatically discover network devices, and use basic performance monitoring functionality."
Platform(s): Solaris, Red Hat Linux.}

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^{pop net-snmp A variety of free SNMP tools, including an extensible agent, an n SNMP library, tools to request or set information from SNMP agents and tools to generate and handle SNMP traps.}	Hits: 5301 Rate it Comment on it

^{pop netOctopus Suite for monitoring and managing Windows and Macintosh networks and desktops. Netopia.}	Hits: 2544 Rate it Comment on it

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Network Probe
Network monitor and protocol analyzer. "All traffic is monitored in real time and presented to the user as a combination of tables and charts, giving detailed information about hosts and protocols, as well as an instant overview of the traffic situation on your network. All the information can be searched, sorted, and filtered by protocols, hosts, conversations, and network interfaces." For Windows XP, Windows NT and Windows 2000.}

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^{pop DNS Boss GUI tool for administering DNS. Runs on Solaris, Linux and Windows NT.}	Hits: 2397 Rating: 4.50 Rate it Comment on it

^{pop IP Commander Enterprise Edition DHCP and DNS server for Windows, Solaris (SPARC) and Linux. From Incognito Software.}	Hits: 2953 Rating: 9.50 Rate it Comment on it

^{pop Simple DNS Plus A DNS and DHCP server for Windows.}	Hits: 3060 Rating: 6.82 Rate it Comment on it

^{pop Vicomsoft DHCP Server Lets administrators automate and control the assignment of IP address configurations. For Windows 95, Windows 95, Windows NT and Windows 2000. Vicomsoft.}	Hits: 2693 Rating: 2.33 Rate it Comment on it

Resource Links: Downloads: Management: Network design

^{pop Didyma Network documentation and monitoring tool. Runs on Windows PCs.}	Hits: 2632 Rating: 6.83 Rate it Comment on it

^{pop netViz Network diagramming tool. Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP or Windows NT 4.x.}	Hits: 3620 Rating: 7.55 Rate it Comment on it

Resource Links: Downloads: Management: Remote control

^{pop I'm InTouch Remote access to a Windows computer from any browser. Platform(s): Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT workstation, Windows 2000, WIndows XP.}	Hits: 3065 Rating: 7.17 Rate it Comment on it

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Angry IP Scanner
"Angry IP scanner simply pings each IP address to check if it's alive, then optionally it is resolving hostname and tries to connect at specified in Options dialog box TCP port. It also has additional features, like NetBIOS information (computer name, workgroup name, currently logged in user and MAC address), results saving to CSV, TXT, HTML or XML file, can be used as a command-line utility in a batch file, etc." Free. For Windows.}

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^{pop John the Ripper Free password cracker, Linux, Unix, Windows and BeOS.}	Hits: 2340 Rating: 7.50 Rate it Comment on it

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^{pop Analog X Proxy Proxy server for Windows based machines on both home networks and small office networks.}	Hits: 3782 Rating: 6.00 Rate it Comment: (1)

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^{pop Real One Player RealNetworks flagship player client. Supports Real, QuickTime, MP3, CD audio and more.}	Hits: 2992 Rating: 3.00 Rate it Comment on it

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^{pop Network Stumbler Software to detect wireless access points and determine whether they have WEP turned on or not (Mini Stumbler, available at the same URL, is similar software for Pocket PC PDAs).}	Hits: 2880 Rating: 6.33 Rate it Comment on it

^{pop WEPCrack Open-source tool for breaking 802.11 WEP secret keys. Platform(s): Perl on Unix or Linux.}	Hits: 6446 Rating: 5.50 Rate it Comment on it

^{pop WPA Cracker Tool that uses a dictionary attack to attempt to learn WPA encryption keys.}	Hits: 4134 Rating: 5.64 Rate it Comment on it

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^{pop Robert Half Technology 2006 Salary Guide See starting salaries for IT professionals and trends and developments expected to affect the field.}	Hits: 24257 Rating: 8.00 Rate it Comment: (1)

Resource Links: Research: Convergence: SIP

^{pop SIP Tutorial 150-page overview of the protocol from iptel.org.}	Hits: 7083 Rating: 10.00 Rate it Comments: (2)

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How to Bypass Most Firewall Restrictions and Access the Internet Privately
"This guide discusses a way an employee or student can securely access the Internet while at work or school, and also get around common firewall restrictions that prevent you from using most networked programs. My definition of "securely" means that there should be no mean by which your employer can know which web sites you have visited or are currently visiting, and can not view or decipher the content of those sites (without actually standing over your shoulder.)"}

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^{pop Wi-Foo: Wireless hacking tools "Here is the list of tools we commonly use in 'pentesting' wireless networks or just wardriving for fun and no profit."}	Hits: 3821 Rating: 6.29 Rate it Comment on it

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^{pop Ad-Aware Software that detects and removes "spyware" on Windows PCs.}	Hits: 2771 Rating: 7.46 Rate it Comment on it

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^{pop aircrack "aircrack is an 802.11 WEP cracking program that can recover a 40-bit or 104-bit WEP key once enough encrypted packets have been gathered. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations, thus making the attack much faster compared to other WEP cracking tools." Open source.}	Hits: 5293 Rating: 1.75 Rate it Comment on it

^{pop AirSnort "AirSnort is a wireless LAN (WLAN) tool which recovers encryption keys. AirSnort operates by passively monitoring transmissions, computing the encryption key when enough packets have been gathered." Free. Runs on Linux.}	Hits: 6802 Rating: 1.00 Rate it Comment: (1)

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