Appendix A: Resources:Antennas and antenna design, Security

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Appendix A: Resources

We recommend these resources for learning more about the various aspects

of wireless networking. For more links and resources, see our website at

http://wndw.net/.

Antennas and antenna design

· Cushcraft technical papers on antenna design and radio propagation,

http://www.cushcraft.com/comm/support/technical-papers.htm

· Free antenna designs, http://www.freeantennas.com/

· Hyperlink Tech, http://hyperlinktech.com/

· Pasadena Networks LLC, http://www.wlanparts.com/

· SuperPass, http://www.superpass.com/

· Unofficial NEC2 code archives, http://www.nec2.org/

· Unofficial NEC2 radio modeling tool home page,

http://www.nittany-scientific.com/nec/

· USB WiFi dish designs, http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/

Network troubleshooting tools

· Bing throughput measurement tool,

http://fgouget.free.fr/bing/index-en.shtml

· Cacti network monitoring package, http://www.cacti.net/

· DSL Reports bandwidth speed tests, http://www.dslreports.com/stest

· EaKiu spectrum analysis tool, http://www.cookwareinc.com/EaKiu/

· EtherApe network traffic monitor, http://etherape.sourceforge.net/

· Flowc open source NetFlow collector, http://netacad.kiev.ua/flowc/.

· Iperf network performance testing tool, http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/

· iptraf network diagnostic tool, http://iptraf.seul.org/

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· MRTG network monitoring and graphing tool,

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

· My TraceRoute network diagnostic tool, http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/

· Nagios network monitoring and event notification tool,

http://www.nagios.org/

· NetFlow, the Cisco protocol for collecting IP traffic information,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflow

· ngrep network security utility for finding patterns in data flows,

http://ngrep.sourceforge.net/

· Network monitoring implementation guides and tutorials,

http://wiki.debian.org/Network_Monitoring

· Ntop network monitoring tool, http://www.ntop.org/

· RRDtool round robin database graphing utility,

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/

· SmokePing network latency and packet loss monitor,

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/

· SoftPerfect network analysis tools, http://www.softperfect.com/

· Squid transparent http proxy HOWTO,

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/TransparentProxy.html

· ttcp network performance testing tool, http://ftp.arl.mil/ftp/pub/ttcp/

· Wireshark network protocol analyzer, http://www.wireshark.org/

Security

· AntiProxy http proxy circumvention tools and information,

http://www.antiproxy.com/

· Anti-spyware tools, http://www.spychecker.com/

· Driftnet network monitoring utility, http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/driftnet/

· Etherpeg network monitoring utility, http://www.etherpeg.org/

· Introduction to OpenVPN, http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7949

· Lavasoft Ad-Aware spyware removal tool, http://www.lavasoft.de/

· Linux security and admin software,

http://www.linux.org/apps/all/Networking/Security_/_Admin.html

· OpenSSH secure shell and tunneling tool, http://openssh.org/

· OpenVPN encrypted tunnel setup guide, http://openvpn.net/howto.html

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· Privoxy filtering web proxy, http://www.privoxy.org/

· PuTTY SSH client for Windows, http://www.putty.nl/

· Sawmill log analyzer, http://www.sawmill.net/

· Security of the WEP algorithm,

http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html

· Stunnel Universal SSL Wrapper, http://www.stunnel.org/

· TOR onion router, http://www.torproject.org/

· Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4,

http://www.crypto.com/papers/others/rc4_ksaproc.ps

· Windows SCP client, http://winscp.net/

· Your 802.11 Wireless Network has No Clothes,

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~waa/wireless.pdf

· ZoneAlarm personal firewall for Windows, http://www.zonelabs.com/

Bandwidth optimization

· Cache heirarchies with Squid,

http://squid-docs.sourceforge.net/latest/html/c2075.html

· dnsmasq caching DNS and DHCP server,

http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html

· Enhancing International World Wide Web Access in Mozambique Through

the Use of Mirroring and Caching Proxies,

http://www.isoc.org/inet97/ans97/cloet.htm

· Fluff file distribution utility, http://www.bristol.ac.uk/fluff/

· Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control HOWTO, http://lartc.org/

· Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server,

http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/

· Microsoft ISA Server Firewall and Cache resource site,

http://www.isaserver.org/

· Optimising Internet Bandwidth in Developing Country Higher Education,

http://www.inasp.info/pubs/bandwidth/index.html

· Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center s guide to Enabling High Performance

Data Transfers, http://www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html

· Planet Malaysia blog on bandwidth management,

http://planetmy.com/blog/?p=148

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· RFC 3135: Performance Enhancing Proxies Intended to Mitigate Link-

Related Degradations, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3135

· Squid web proxy cache, http://squid-cache.org/

Mesh networking

· Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network software,

http://cuwireless.net/download

· Freifunk OLSR mesh firmware for the Linksys WRT54G,

http://www.freifunk.net/wiki/FreifunkFirmware

· MIT Roofnet Project, http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/roofnet/doku.php

· OLSR mesh networking daemon, http://www.olsr.org/

· Real-time OLSR topology viewer,

http://meshcube.org/nylon/utils/olsr-topology-view.pl

· AirJialdi Mesh Router, http://drupal.airjaldi.com/node/9

Wireless operating systems and drivers

· DD-WRT wireless router OS, http://www.dd-wrt.com/

· HostAP wireless driver for the Prism 2.5 chipset, http://hostap.epitest.fi/

· m0n0wall wireless router OS, http://m0n0.ch/wall/

· MadWiFi wireless driver for the Atheros chipset, http://madwifi.org/

· Metrix Pyramid wireless router OS, http://pyramid.metrix.net/

· OpenWRT wireless router OS for Linksys access points, http://openwrt.org/

· Tomato wireless router OS for Linksys access points,

http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

Wireless tools

· Chillispot captive portal, http://www.chillispot.info/

· Interactive Wireless Network Design Analysis Utilities,

http://www.qsl.net/n9zia/wireless/page09.html

· KisMAC wireless monitor for Mac OS X, http://kismac.macpirate.ch/

· Kismet wireless network monitoring tool, http://www.kismetwireless.net/

· MacStumbler wireless network detection tool for Mac OS X,

http://www.macstumbler.com/

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· NetStumbler wireless network detection tool for Windows and Pocket PC,

http://www.netstumbler.com/

· NoCatSplash captive portal, http://nocat.net/download/NoCatSplash/

· PHPMyPrePaid prepaid ticketing system,

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyprepaid/

· RadioMobile radio performance modeling tool, http://www.cplus.org/rmw/

· Terabeam wireless link calculation tools,

http://www.terabeam.com/support/calculations/index.php

· Wellenreiter wireless network detection tool for Linux,

http://www.wellenreiter.net/

· WiFiDog captive portal, http://www.wifidog.org/

· Wireless Network Link Analysis tool by GBPRR,

http://my.athenet.net/~multiplx/cgi-bin/wireless.main.cgi

General wireless related information

· DefCon long distance WiFi shootout, http://www.wifi-shootout.com/

· Homebrew wireless hardware designs, http://www.w1ghz.org/

· Linksys wireless access point information, http://linksysinfo.org/

· Linksys WRT54G resource guide,

http://seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/LinksysWrt54g

· NoCat community wireless group, http://nocat.net/

· Ronja optical data link hardware, http://ronja.twibright.com/

· SeattleWireless community wireless group, http://seattlewireless.net/

· SeattleWireless Hardware comparison page,

http://www.seattlewireless.net/HardwareComparison

· Stephen Foskett's Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Calculator,

http://www.gweep.net/~sfoskett/tech/poecalc.html

Networking services

· Access Kenya ISP, http://www.accesskenya.com/

· Broadband Access Ltd. wireless broadband carrier, http://www.blue.co.ke/

· Virtual IT outsourcing, http://www.virtualit.biz/

· wire.less.dk consultancy and services, http://wire.less.dk/

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Training and education

· Association for Progressive Communications wireless connectivity projects,

http://www.apc.org/wireless/

· International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications,

http://www.inasp.info/

· Makere University, Uganda, http://www.makerere.ac.ug/

· Radio Communications Unit of the Abdus Salam International Center for

Theoretical Physics, http://wireless.ictp.trieste.it/

· World Summits on Free Information Infrastructures, http://www.wsfii.org/

Miscellaneous links

· Cygwin Linux-like environment for Windows, http://www.cygwin.com/

· Graphvis graph visualization tool, http://www.graphviz.org/

· ICTP bandwidth simulator, http://wireless.ictp.trieste.it/simulator/

· ImageMagick image manipulation tools and libraries,

http://www.imagemagick.org/

· NodeDB war driving map database, http://www.nodedb.com/

· Open Relay DataBase, http://www.ordb.org/

· Partition Image disk utility for Linux, http://www.partimage.org/

· RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets,

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1918

· Rusty Russell's Linux Networking Concepts,

http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO/

networking-concepts-HOWTO.html

· Ubuntu Linux, http://www.ubuntu.com/

· VoIP-4D Primer, http://www.it46.se/voip4d/voip4d.php

· wget web utility for Windows, http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

· WiFiMaps war driving map database, http://www.wifimaps.com/

· WiSpy spectrum analysis tool, http://www.metageek.net/

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Books

· 802.11 Networks: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition. Matthew Gast,

O Reilly Media. ISBN #0-596-10052-3

· 802.11 Wireless Network Site Surveying and Installation. Bruce Alexander,

Cisco Press. ISBN #1-587-05164-8

· The ARRL Antenna Book, 20th Edition. R. Dean Straw (Editor), American

Radio Relay League. ISBN #0-87259-904-3

· The ARRL UHF/Microwave Experimenter's Manual. American Radio Relay

League. ISBN #0-87259-312-6

· Building Wireless Community Networks, 2nd Edition. Rob Flickenger,

O Reilly Media. ISBN #0-596-00502-4

· How To Accelerate Your Internet, A free book about bandwidth optimiza-

tion. http://bwmo.net/. ISBN #978-0-9778093-1-8

· Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks. Jack Unger, Cisco

Press. ISBN #1-587-05069-2

· TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1. W. Richard Stevens, Addison-Wesley. ISBN

#0-201-63346-9

· Wireless Hacks, 2nd Edition. Rob Flickenger and Roger Weeks, O Reilly

Media. ISBN #0-596-10144-9

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