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NetFlow probe using Raspberry

NetFlow is a web protocol designed and created by Cisco to collect metrics on IP traffic and currently constitutes an industry standard in the world of network monitoring. It enables monitoring and analysis of any traffic generated by a specific…

Connecting Huawei eNSP to VMware Network

1. Overview When working with Huawei eNSP, sometime we may want to connect the network topology which is created in eNSP to the real network adapter of the physical computer, any network adapter of Oracle VM VirtualBox, or any of the…

Raspberry PI – Cacti troubleshooting

Check out System Utilities, View Cacti Log files Check rrd file exists /var/lib/cacti/rra/ Check content of the rrd file /usr/bin/rrdtool info Check that your perl script is working correctly Check which user is running crontab root@raspberrypi:/var/lib/cacti# more MAILTO=root…

Hey Google

Update: In case some of your features won’t work correctly , try changing the Language of your device to English (United States). Things like badtime story does not work with UK setting 🙂 Complete list of features is here.  …

Set default printer based on WiFi

Open the Control Panel, go to Devices and Printers and then scroll down to the Printers section. There you’ll see a list of all the printers your PC is familiar with. At least one of them should have a green…

Open source network management tools

Open source software has a long history in lower-level network software so it’s not surprising there is a healthy range of free tools available for network and systems management. Often with commercial support available, open source network management tools offer…

The best simulator/emulator for SDN

simulator choice depend on your purpose (case study: problem or application) these most simulator for SDN: 1- MATLAB and Simulink MATLAB :  Simulink :  2- Pareto Optimal Controller Placement (POCO) Matlab-based tool 3- OpenDaylight SDN Controller with the Mininet…

SYN Flood attacks

Recent work by Andre Oppermann uses the TCP Timestamp option in conjunction with the Sequence Number field to encode more state information and preserve the use of high-performance options such as TCP Window Scaling, and TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options (SACK), and…