If you’re a network administrator, chances are at some point you may need to set up a number of different networks on your IP range. In order to do this, you will need to know how to create different subnets. There are two main things to remember when trying to calculate subnets. The first is [...]

Categories: Networks, Tutorials Basic

One of the things that I to regularly on all of my computer systems is to check each system’s open TCP and UDP ports. It is a security precaution to make sure that only needed ports are listening, and that all other ports are closed to reduce the chance of a successful attack. I have [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

As promised (in my article “How do I find my network information in Linux?“) I am going to introduce you to the netstat command. This command is a very useful tool for discovering networking information such as routing tables, network connections, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships. But it’s not quite as simple to [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Fport is a portable command line utility that will report all open TCP and UDP ports to the user. The port analyzer maps each open port to an application to distinguish itself from the netstat -an command in Windows which otherwise would provide the same amount of information. What this means is that Fport will [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

Wondering how much traffic can be pulled through the network you’re working in during certain period of time or how quickly your network components work? Yeah, be a networking proffesional or a regular home user with a small LAN (like me :) ), it’s always good to know what’s your network capable of. But how [...]

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