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- mklopez, on 10/11/2007, -1/+34Damm! wrong topic! I meant to click the "software" radio button... i need new glasses!
Please dont bury me for that! :( - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+30Lifehacker Managing editor motto: I don't care what it is and how you do it, come up with a got damn Top 10 list ASAP.
- Crimsonkill7, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17Ethereal, Kismet/Kismac, the aircrack-ng suite, ettercap, nmap; I can't live without these and they're not on there. This list is bogus, all of them just different GUI's for people who don't like the standard GUI.
- nullx42, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16Where the hell is Ethereal??
Ethereal rocks. - webtechgeek, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15I dugg you up anyways ... not a biggie.
- Virak, on 10/11/2007, -13/+25Buried for lack of ping, netcat, dig, netstat, SSH, nmap, Wireshark, and countless other essentials. And before you go "but most of those are CLI tools!": If you cannot use the command line, you are too stupid to do anything more than basic network administration; just give up.
- jgtg32a, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12agreed
but
Didn't they have to change their name to Wireshark, because someone else owned the name Ethereal? - drspacemonkey, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11I came in here to say exactly that. I had to read it twice to make sure I didn't miss it, because there's no way Ethereal/Wireshark should ever be left off that list.
- Crimsonkill7, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Ok, ignore my last comment, I didn't phrase it properly.
This list is bogus, some of these apps arn't even a real network utility! Here's a list of REAL network utilities:
1. Kismet // Kismac
2. Ethereal//Wireshark
3. Ettercap
4. the aircrack-ng suite
5. Snort
The list goes on at: http://sectools.org/ that site has REAL network utilities...lawl at a P2P app being called a network utility - wired4u, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7nmap should be on the list
- Ramzy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Finally NetMeter gets some recognition. Such an awesome program.
- bml104, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5This is more for basic users guys. You act like everyone is a network engineer or something.
- tempusrob, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6Protip: The stuff you listed is a given for any network admin. LH isn't for sysadmins, it's for somewhat technically-inclined people who want to do ***** in their day-to-day lives. What's Joe Blow going to do with Wireshark and nmap?
- kevintmckay, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Here is my list:
tcpdump
nmap
telnet ( for port interrogation )
dsniff
tcpdump
traceroute
netcat
nessus
wireshark
nikto
open ssh - jennamalia, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6So LifeHacker has a different audience than your level of expertise...
Just because you know how to shift a Formula One racecar, doesn't mean that you should be calling automatic transmissions bogus (or, as in your comment below, "not real"). - xpankrat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3not many of these are "point and click software applications" which is what the original list is about
- drgruney, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Netstumbler???!!!
- bobcrotch, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3You guys all fail still because no one has listed nessus!
- DeadManWalking, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4No way, you just made my day. I've just installed Synergy on both this machine and my laptop and it rocks. Now I don't need to keep reaching over for the laptop's keyboard and mouse.
- EruLabs, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5Amen bother. The whole time I was thinking... Uhm, a few sessions of ettercap -C, Cain and Abel, Insecure.net's nMAP, and Cacti are all the network tools I'll need for a long time. Well, that is not counting all the common unix network commands.
- kevintmckay, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2"Where the hell is Ethereal??
Ethereal rocks."
now called wireshark - souletr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1If you have dd-wrt, you don't need the DynDNS client: it's already built into dd-wrt. Log into your router > Setup > DDNS. Enter your info and you'll never have to download a client or manually update again.
- XenophobicAlien, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2At my house I have a linksys router (running dd-wrt) with 4 pc's hooked to it. 2 hard wired and 2 wireless. Is there any way to monitor what ip addresses or websites the other computers are accesssing from one of the pc's without having to go to each pc. I.E. can I monitor what websites or IP addresses my son is accessing from my pc in my office that is hard wired to the router?
- kevintmckay, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I also forgot the openssh+squid combo so no employer can dictate what you surf
in extreme cases you may need to add cork screw to that combo for an unstoppable trio - cactus476, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4Hamachi is the *****.
- kodek, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2A p2p app is a network utility. It must not be a network DIAGNOSTIC utility, but it's a utility used through a network nonetheless.
- BlackMagic2, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1http://users.pandora.be/ahmadi/nettools.htm Net Tools, a bunch of awesome Networking tools in one nice neat program.
- squirlyblack, on 07/30/2008, -0/+0 This is a top 10 list of programs to use if you are a system administrator, and nothing more, just like Virak and tempusrob mentioned. There are a lot of useful programs that are missing from that list, and without which LH wouldn’t be possible. A top 10 in my opinion, differs from one person to another, because everyone like using something elce, be it a terminal, nmap or other programs that have been named here. https://cisco.hosted.jivesoftware.com/index.jspa?c ...
- EmileVictor, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Empty space!
- Nomad64, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1The list is...well...decent. Hamachi, DynDNS, and Angry IP (port) Scanner are tools that I use daily, both on the job and off.
Although, the lack of basic tools from the list is rather shocking. I mean, c'mon, not even PING? Not to mention nslookup, dig, and snort. Anyone who wants to go into the computer networking field needs to know how to use these tools.
I am not saying that other tools on the list suck. Aside from the before-mentioned tools, I have also used Synergy and DD-WRT, both of which are awesome products.
In the defense of the writer/editor..."Network Utilities" is rather generic...then again, where the hell is ipconfig (ifconfig)!? - Memitim, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Except that it was claiming to be the top 10 network utilities, not the top 10 network utilities for people who call their monitor the "computer." I could maybe see DynDNS and DD-WRT, although if we are being technical DynDNS is not a utility, but the rest are crap. It's like they went out of their way to pick alternatives to the more widely used apps in the categories that they selected. Angry IP Scanner instead of nmap? Hamachi over Cisco VPN? I'd even expect better from script kiddies than this shameless excuse to draw hits by acting authoritative.
- silvalynin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0@xeno
just check the log files of your router, it should show the internal ip of the computer making the connections, and show you address of the site that computer is accessing. Also, maybe you should setup some filters if you're worried about what your son might be accessing....and more importantly, talk to him about it....because he's most likely going to find ways around the filters anyways...we all do - nathanwalker, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1DD-WRT is the absolute best. It turned that crappy Linksys WRT54Gv5 router into something I can actually use. It pushed the range of wireless network, it's a lot more secure, and the QOS lets me run bittorrent and stream video at the same time. Nice.
- RoadWarriorX11, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0"DynDNS is not a utility. it's a service. no one calls their isp a utility because they let people borrow ip numbers.'"
They actually have a client for DynDNS that I use at work since we only have basic DSL and they change IPs constantly.
But i agree where is ping, traceroute, nmap, ssh, and VNC? - sauced, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0where the hell is nmap? and use netscan.exe for portscanning lan machines.
also, i prefer Tomato firmware to DD-WRT on the WRT54G/Broadcom devices - ozmann, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0DynDNS is not a utility. it's a service. no one calls their isp a utility because they let people borrow ip numbers.
inadyn or ddclient are good clients for services like dyndns tho. they both support other dynamic dns services out there, and inadyn runs on linux, mac and windows. - vegasmacguy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1:shameless plug:
They forgot dsniff control http://www.mrwsoftware.com/ its only available on PPC though.
/shameless plug
I know i'm going to get dugg down but its on topic - MikiMac, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0I agree!
I play all the games that don't have internet multiplayer (or when the game is cracked) over VPN in network play with friends acrros the world. we play mostly Battlefield Vietnam cause of the bots.
works great. can get laggy at times, depending on # of players, bandwidth, and hosting computer.
and you set it all up in less than 1 min. - Virak, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1PROTIP: Joe Blow is quite irrelevant here, as this is (supposedly, anyway) a list of networking utilities. Either the author just made a really horrible selection, in which case my original complaint stands, or they apparently think 'network utility' = 'anything that uses networking', in which case they're a goddamn idiot and need to stop writing about ***** they don't understand (and the story is still worthy of being buried; even more so, in fact).
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