Content

1. Networking tools
2. Programming
3. Unix guide

I. Networking tools

• On line help on the main Network Information Tools
• Tools of the Trade: The most important commands and tools you will be using.
• Tools for ISPs by Nanog

Packets capture

• Wireshark: The World's Most Popular Network Protocol Analyzer
• Wipal: Analysis on a 802.11 network
• WScout: processing and analysis of big traces

Scanner

• Network mapper (nmap)

DNS

• host: DNS lookup utilities
• dnstop: display DNS traffic on your network
• dnstracer: DNS tracing utility

Ping

• Finger print: find remote OS type
• fping: pings a number of hosts at one time

Scapy

• interactive packet manipulation in python

Education materials

• Marionnet: Documentation
• pcapr
• network simulator by Certa
• ns-2

Bandwidth estimate

• pchar: A Tool for Measuring Internet Path Characteristics
• iperf (fr)
• ntop: shows network usage

TCP

• tcpflow: captures data transmitted as part of TCP connections
• tcptrace: analyses tcp dump files
• tcptraceroute: alternative to traceroute, using TCP packets
• tcpreplay: tool to replay captured net traffic
• Tstat: TCP STatistic and Analysis Tool, a passive sniffer able to provide several insight on the traffic patterns at both the the network and transport levels

Emulator

• MobiEmu is a tool for emulating mobile ad-hoc network environment with a fixed network of Linux machines

II. Programming

See also this page relative to ns-2 tools

C

• The GNU C Library reference guide: Socket section
• Sechrest, S.. (1997). url.
         "An Introductory 4.4bsd Interprocess Communication Tutorial".
• Leffler, S.. (1997). url.
         "An Advanced 4.3bsd Interprocess Communication Tutorial".

Python

• Apprendre à programmer avec Python par Gérard Swinnen (2006)
  • Les sources des exemples
• Python documentation
• Python tutorial
• Python Library reference
  • Python Library Reference: network programming
• J. Goerzen. (2005), Ed.: Apress. code SCD: 681.223GOE
         Foundations of Python Network Programming.
         ressources: source codes
• Python library:
  • impacket

Tcl

• Référence manual of Tcl 8.4

III. UNIX guide

• The essential unix commands
• Unix guide (in french).

Bash

• Writing bash scripts (pour les nuls)
• Bash tutorial
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide***
• bash by FSF & GNU
• Shell programming
• An introduction to Bash (IUT GTR Paris 13)

Editor

• Vim documentation

Tools

• awk: a tool to process text file
  • Manual awk.
  • tutorial awk.
• gnuplot; user guide
        A plotting program
• CVS: a tool to manage project versions (Now use SVN)
  • réference Manual
  • User's guide
  • Mini-HowTo by Antoine Marin