Software resources


UNIX Systems

Getting Linux
Linux can be obtained in several ways, one common way is to buy a book which comes with
Linux on CD. Alternatively you can try the following:

These are four of over one hundred Linux distributions
http://www.redhat.com/
..............Fedora is the free version of RedHat Linx
............http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora
http://www.debian.org/
http://www.suse.com/index_us.html

Other free UNIX software
The GNU project web server. Also the web site of the Free Software foundation. GNU projects
range from compilers through to film editing software.
http://www.gnu.org/

A patchy web server.
http://www.apache.org/

An office suite
http://www.openoffice.org/


Security

Top 100 security tools. Excellent list.
http://www.sectools.org/

Microsoft security tools.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/security/cc297183.aspx

A RADIUS server.
http://www.freeradius.org/


Microsoft Systems

Microsofts download page. Includes links to downloads for free PowerPoint and Visio viewers.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/default.aspx


Programming

The Java development kit
http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html

Tomcat - used for servlets and jsp pages
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html

Just an Editor. Text editor for Java programmers
http://mathsrv.ku-eichstaett.de/MGF/homes/grothmann/je/index.html
(written in Java)


Networking

Basic utilities
Free software including syslog server, server and FTP server for Windows.
TFTP http://support.3com.com/software/utilities_for_windows_32_bit.htm

Free SSH, SCP and SFTP client and server for Windows.
http://lexa.mckenna.edu/sshwindows

More free Unix oriented SSh utilities
http://www.openssh.com/

Network tools
A free complete network analyser.
http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

Dr.TCP provides a GUI interface into the registry to change parameters such as MTU and TCP
windows size.
http://www.dslreports.com/front/drtcp.html

A free subnet calculator. You really shouldn't need it but its here if you want it.
http://www.wildpackets.com/products/ipsubnetcalculator

A number of tools including a Cisco password decoder and a Cisco configuration register
decoder along with a RIP route generator.
http://www.boson.com/promo/utilities.htm

Looking glasses
Looking glasses provide a graphical interface to utilities such as ping and traceroute and
also provide bgp information. The tools run from the appropriate "Looking glass server".

A list of looking glasses. http://www.traceroute.org/

SNMP software
Network link-monitoring tool with SNMP support. Produces real time HTML statistics pages.
http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

A superb list of SNMP tools ranging from SNMP monitoring tools and MIB browsers through
to SNMP agents and SMI parsers. To access software just click on tools. There is lots of other
excellent SNMP information here as well.
http://www.snmplink.org/

Various free tools relating to SNMP.
http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/


Foundry Networks

Visio stencils for Foundry Networks products
http://www.foundrynet.com/company/newsroom/img-lib/

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