network testing

Online Nmap video training - scan your network

Nmap has been around a long time. It has become an indispensable tool for identifying systems, services and vulnerabilities on a network. It has also been featured in movies like The Matrix Reloaded, Bourne Ultimatum and Die Hard 4. What other network tool do you have in your toolkit that is a movie star?

I came across a great training resource for Nmap. It is a video by the author of Nmap, Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon. This particular video is from Defcon 16 Black Hat Briefings 2008. It is a great video because you learn some tips and tricks from the Nmap master. Take some time and learn about scan timing settings in Nmap that can get you results much faster. Learn also about analyzing responses of firewalled hosts versus non-firewalled hosts. The tips I learned in this video made a big difference in getting my job done.

The CosmoLearning website has a lot of excellent computer science content. This is a website to bookmark if you are a computer professional or student. You will find something of interest whether it be artificial intelligence, computer graphics, programming theory, or robotics.

Thanks for reading & let’s continue to be good network citizens!

Did you see this? - Internet Measurement Testing tools

There will always be some user saying “the internet is slow”. There are many resources out there to test internet connections. The Measurement Lab is one I came across the other day. There are several useful tools under this page. Some of the tools and descriptions are listed below. Maybe one of these will be useful to you or your users some day. Just remember you heard about it on IT-Trenches! Thanks for reading and let’s continue to be good network citizens.

• Network Diagnostic Tool

  Test your connection speed and receive sophisticated diagnosis of problems limiting speed.

• Glasnost

  Test whether BitTorrent is being blocked or throttled.

• Network Path and Application Diagnosis

  Diagnose common problems that impact last-mile broadband networks.

• DiffProbe (coming soon)

  Determine whether an ISP is giving some traffic a lower priority than other traffic.

• NANO (coming soon)

  Determine whether an ISP is degrading the performance of a certain subset of users, applications, or destinations.