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| adns 1.3 | GPL | Advanced, easy to use, asynchronous-capable DNS client library |
| adns is a resolver library for C (and C++) programs. In contrast with the existing interfaces, gethostbyname et al and libresolv, it has the following features: * It is reasonably easy to use for simple programs which just want to translate names to addresses, look up MX records, etc. * It can be used in an asynchronous, non-blocking, manner. Many queries can be handled simultaneously. * Responses are decoded automatically into a natural representation for a C program - there is no need to deal with DNS packet formats. * Sanity checking (eg, name syntax checking, reverse/forward correspondence, CNAME pointing to CNAME) is performed automatically. * Time-to-live, CNAME and other similar information is returned in an easy-to-use form, without getting in the way. * There is no global state in the library; resolver state is an opaque data structure which the client creates explicitly. A program can have several instances of the resolver. * Errors are reported to the application in a way that distinguishes the various causes of failure properly. * Understands conventional resolv.conf, but this can overridden by environment variables. * Flexibility. For example, the application can tell adns to: ignore environment variables (for setuid programs), disable sanity checks eg to return arbitrary data, override or ignore resolv.conf in favour of supplied configuration, etc. * Believed to be correct ! For example, will correctly back off to TCP in case of long replies or queries, or to other nameservers if several are available. It has sensible handling of bad responses etc. | ||
| bind-utils 9.3.2 | distributable | Utilities for querying DNS name servers |
| Bind-utils contains a collection of utilities for querying DNS (Domain Name Service) name servers to find out information about Internet hosts. These tools will provide you with the IP addresses for given host names, as well as other information about registered domains and network addresses. You should install bind-utils if you need to get information from DNS name servers. | ||
| curl 7.15.5 | MIT | Gets a file from a FTP, GOPHER or HTTP server |
| curl is a client to get documents/files from servers, using any of the supported protocols. The command is designed to work without user interaction or any kind of interactivity. curl offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support, user authentication, ftp upload, HTTP post, file transfer resume and more. This version is compiled with SSL (https) support. | ||
| diald 1.0 | GPL | Daemon that provides on demand IP links via SLIP or PPP |
| Diald is a daemon that provides on demand IP links via SLIP or PPP. The purpose of diald is to make it transparently appear that you have a permanent connection to a remote site. Diald sets up a "proxy" device which stands in for the physical connection to a remote site. It then monitors the proxy, waiting for packets to arrive. When interesting packets arrive it will attempt to establish the physical link to the remote site using either SLIP or PPP, and if it succeeds it will forward traffic from the proxy to the physical link. As well, diald will monitor traffic once the physical link is up, and when it has determined that the link is idle, the remote connection is terminated. The criteria for bringing the link up and taking it down are configurable at run time, and are based upon the type of traffic passing over the link. Note that even if you use ppp for your connections, you still need slip compiled, either into the kernel or as a module. | ||
| finger 0.17 | BSD | The finger client |
| Finger is a utility which allows users to see information about system users (login name, home directory, name, how long they've been logged in to the system, etc.). The finger package includes a standard finger client. You should install finger if you'd like to retreive finger information from other systems. | ||
| fping 2.4b2 | GPL | Quickly ping N number of hosts to determine their reachability |
| fping is a ping(1) like program which uses the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a host is up. fping is different from ping in that you can specify any number of hosts on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists of hosts to ping. Instead of trying one host until it timeouts or replies, fping will send out a ping packet and move on to the next host in a round-robin fashion. If a host replies, it is noted and removed from the list of hosts to check. If a host does not respond within a certain time limit and/or retry limit it will be considered unreachable. | ||
| ibod 1.4 | GPL | Ibod - ISDN MPPP bandwidth on demand daemon |
| ibod is a ISDN MPPP bandwidth on demand daemon designed to operate in conjunction with isdn4linux. It is normally started at boot time, but can be started and stopped at any time. The program monitors inbound and outbound traffic on the ISDN interface. When the required bandwidth exceeds the capacity for one IDSN B-channel (64kbps) a second (slave) channel is connected according to the MPPP protocol. When the traffic decreases below one channel capacity, the slave channel is disconnected. | ||
| iproute2 2.6.16 | GPL | Advanced IP routing and network device configuration tools |
| The iproute package contains networking utilities (ip, tc and rtmon, for example) which are designed to use the advanced networking capabilities of the Linux 2.2.x kernels and later, such as policy routing, fast NAT and packet scheduling. | ||
| libcurl3 7.15.5 | MIT | A library of functions for file transfer |
| libcurl is a library of functions for sending and receiving files through various protocols, including http and ftp. You should install this package if you plan to use any applications that use libcurl. | ||
| LinNeighborhood 0.6.5 | GPL | Samba share browser |
| LinNeighborhood is a front end to Samba using the gtk libraries. | ||
| macutils 2.0b3 | GPL-style | Utilities for manipulating Macintosh file formats |
| The macutils package includes a set of utilities for manipulating files that are commonly used by Macintosh machines. Macutils includes utilities like binhex, hexbin, macunpack, etc. Install macutils if you need to manipulate files that are commonly used by Macintosh machines. | ||
| mandi-ifw 0.8.2 | GPL | Firewall rules for Interactive Firewall |
| This package contains the iptables rules used to forward intrusion detections to the mandi daemon. It is a component of Interactive Firewall. | ||
| mandi 0.8.2 | GPL | Monitoring daemon bridge |
| Mandi is a monitoring daemon which acts as a bridge from root monitoring libraries to user applications, using D-Bus. Its plugin system allows to monitor different kind of events. A built-in plugin forwards wireless scan results from wpa_supplicant to user applications. | ||
| mount-cifs 3.0.23b | GPL | cifs filesystem mount helper |
| This package provides the mount.cifs helper to mount cifs filesystems using the cifs filesystem driver | ||
| ncpfs 2.2.6 | GPL | Utilities for the ncpfs filesystem, a NetWare client for Linux |
| Ncpfs is a filesystem which understands the Novell NetWare(TM) NCP protocol. Functionally, NCP is used for NetWare the way NFS is used in the TCP/IP world. For a Linux system to mount a NetWare filesystem, it needs a special mount program. The ncpfs package contains such a mount program plus other tools for configuring and using the ncpfs filesystem. Install the ncpfs package if you need to use the ncpfs filesystem to use Novell NetWare files or services. | ||
| nc 1.10 | GPL | Reads and writes data across network connections using TCP or UDP |
| The nc package contains Netcat (the program is now netcat), a simple utility for reading and writing data across network connections, using the TCP or UDP protocols. Netcat is intended to be a reliable back-end tool which can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. Netcat is also a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create many different connections and has many built-in capabilities. You may want to install the netcat package if you are administering a network and you'd like to use its debugging and network exploration capabilities. netcat has been compiled with -DGAPING_SECURITY_HOLE turned on. I do not believe this is as much of a security hole as the author makes it out to be, *if* you know what you're doing (but then, if you didn't, you'd still be using telnet ;-)). Since the spawned program will run as whatever user started netcat, don't use -e as root. You have been warned, so if some cracker breaks into your system due to your own stupidity, don't blame me. A symlink to the netcat binary called 'netcat' has been installed. However, the canonical name is still 'nc'. If you use netcat on other systems, it will probably only be installed as 'nc', so keep this in mind when writing scripts. | ||
| net-snmp-mibs 5.3.1 | BSDish | MIBs for the NET-SNMP project |
| The net-snmp-mibs package contains various MIBs for use with the NET-SNMP network management project. | ||
| net-snmp-utils 5.3.1 | BSDish | Network management utilities using SNMP, from the NET-SNMP project |
| The net-snmp package contains various utilities for use with the NET-SNMP network management project. Install this package if you need utilities for managing your network using the SNMP protocol. | ||
| nfs-utils-clients 1.0.9 | GPL | The utilities for Linux NFS client |
| The nfs-utils package provides a daemon for the kernel NFS server and related tools, which provides a much higher level of performance than the traditional Linux NFS server used by most users. This package also contains the showmount program. Showmount queries the mount daemon on a remote host for information about the NFS (Network File System) server on the remote host. For example, showmount can display the clients which are mounted on that host. | ||
| nfs-utils 1.0.9 | GPL | The utilities for Linux NFS server |
| The nfs-utils package provides a daemon for the kernel NFS server and related tools, which provides a much higher level of performance than the traditional Linux NFS server used by most users. This package also contains the showmount program. Showmount queries the mount daemon on a remote host for information about the NFS (Network File System) server on the remote host. For example, showmount can display the clients which are mounted on that host. The following are valid build options. (ie. use with rpm --rebuild): --without nfsv4 Build with NFS protocol v4 support --without wrap Build with tcp_wrappers support | ||
| nmap-frontend 4.11 | GPL | Gtk+ frontend for nmap |
| This package includes nmapfe, a Gtk+ frontend for nmap. The nmap package must be installed before installing nmap-frontend. | ||
| nmap 4.11 | GPL | Network exploration tool and security scanner |
| Nmap is a utility for network exploration or security auditing. It supports ping scanning (determine which hosts are up), many port scanning techniques (determine what services the hosts are offering), and TCP/IP fingerprinting (remote host operating system identification). Nmap also offers flexible target and port specification, decoy scanning, determination of TCP sequence predictability characteristics, sunRPC scanning, reverse-identd scanning, and more. | ||
| openvpn 2.0.7 | GPL | A Secure UDP Tunneling Daemon |
| OpenVPN is a robust and highly flexible tunneling application that uses all of the encryption, authentication, and certification features of the OpenSSL library to securely tunnel IP networks over a single UDP port. This package contains the auth-ldap plugin | ||
| pptp-linux 1.7.1 | GPL | PPTP-linux VPN client |
| PPTP-linux allows you to connect to a PPTP server from a Linux or other Unix box (ports of pptp-linuxto other Unix variants should be trivial, but have not yet been performed). See the IPfwd page (http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~cananian/Projects/IPfwd) for information on tunnelling PPTP through Linux firewalls. | ||
| samba-client 3.0.23b | GPL | Samba (SMB) client programs |
| Samba-client provides some SMB clients, which complement the built-in SMB filesystem in Linux. These allow the accessing of SMB shares, and printing to SMB printers. | ||
| samba-server 3.0.23b | GPL | Samba (SMB) server programs |
| Samba-server provides a SMB server which can be used to provide network services to SMB (sometimes called "Lan Manager") clients. Samba uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) protocols and does NOT need NetBEUI (Microsoft Raw NetBIOS frame) protocol. Samba-3.0 features working NT Domain Control capability and includes the SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) that allows samba's smb.conf file to be remotely managed using your favourite web browser. For the time being this is being enabled on TCP port 901 via xinetd. SWAT is now included in it's own subpackage, samba-swat. Please refer to the WHATSNEW.txt document for fixup information. This binary release includes encrypted password support. Please read the smb.conf file and ENCRYPTION.txt in the docs directory for implementation details. | ||
| scli 0.2.12 | GPL | SCLI - SNMP Command Line Interface |
| Authors description on the project's home page: The scli package was written to address the need for small and efficient command line utilities to monitor and configure network devices and host systems. The scli package is based on the SNMP management protocol. It utilizes a MIB compiler called smidump to generate C stub code. In fact, virtually no SNMP knowledge is required in order to extend the scli programs with new features. The programs contained in the scli package try to be very specific rather than generic. Generic SNMP tools such as MIB browsers or simple command line tools (e.g. snmpwalk) are hard to use since they expose too many protocol details. And in most cases, they fail to present the information in a format that is easy to read and understand. The scli package was designed to be extensible. Additional modes that extend the capabilities of the tools can easily be added. The smidump MIB compiler hides all the SNMP protocol details so that every C programmer can implement new modes. In fact, we like to encourage users to write and contribute new modes so that the package becomes more and more valuable. To summarize, the slogan for this little package is: "After more than 10 years of SNMP, I felt it is time for really useful command line SNMP monitoring and configuration tools. ;-)" | ||
| smb4k 0.7.2 | GPL | A KDE SMB share browser |
| An SMB network and share browser for KDE 3.1 or later. | ||
| vpnc 0.3.3 | GPL | A free vpn client for the Cisco 3000 concentrators |
| A free vpn client for cisco3000 VPN Concentrator, completly in userspace, require Universal TUN/TAP device driver support compiled in the kernel or as module | ||
There is something a little bit surreal about sitting in a meeting of the Jamaica Linux Users Group (JaLUG), in a cafe beside a waterfall — with Linus, Ted, Eric and other luminaries in the front of the room and an attentive audience filling the rest of the space — while a veteran local IBM executive stands up and describes the adoption of Linux by the company’s customers with adjectives like “huge”. — Doc Searles
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