Labs Practice

Content

1. Networking tools
   • Packet capture
   • Education materials
2. Programming
3. Unix guide
4. Utilities

I. Networking tools

• Tools for ISPs by Nanog

Packets capture

• Wireshark: The World's Most Popular Network Protocol Analyzer
  • its wiki.
  • User's guide
• tcpdump: a powerful command-line packet analyzer.
  • Reference sheet (pdf) by packet life
  • Cheat sheet by Comparitech. (pdf)
• Wipal: Analysis on a 802.11 network
• WScout: processing and analysis of big traces

Packet generator

• Scapy: interactive packet manipulation in python
• netcat: the TCP/IP swiss knife
  • Cheat sheet

Education materials

• NetKit : The poor man's system to experiment computer networking
  • Une introduction de l'émulateur Netkit (pdf) (fr)
  • screen: a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes
• Kathara - a container-based framework
• Mininet
• Marionnet
• pcapr
• network simulator by Certa
• Socklab by IMAG
• GNS-3 : Virtual network with graphical interface

• Network simulator: NS-2
  • NS-2 Documentation (Tcl, C++, etc.)
  • NS-2 home site

Bandwidth estimate

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

Scanner

• Network mapper (nmap)

Ping

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

DNS

• host, dig: DNS lookup utilities. An interesting How-to dig.
• dnstop: display DNS traffic on your network
• dnstracer: DNS tracing utility

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 the page relative to ns-2 tools

The C programming language

• Compilation des cours de C
• Le site du zéro: apprendre le C

Network programming

• 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
• Building Skills in Python: A Programmer's Introduction to Python by Steven F. Lott (2008)
• Lutz, M. and Ascher, D. (2001), Ed.: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Code SCD: 681.223 LUT
   "Introduction à Python".
• Python tutorial
• Python Module of the Week (PyMOTW) is a tour of the Python standard library through short examples
• All the documentation of Python programming language
• Python Library reference ***
  • Socket module
  • Threading module

Network programming

• J. Goerzen, B. Rhodes. (2014), Ed.: Apress. Third edition. Code SCD: 681.223 GOE
         Foundations of Python Network Programming.
• Tutorial on Network Programming with Python (pdf)
• Comunications à travers un réseau du livre Apprendre à programmer avec Python 3.
• Socket – Network Communication by PyMOTW

III. UNIX guide

• Unix guide (in french).

Bash

• Writing bash scripts (pour les nuls)
• Bash tutorial
• A quick reference to Bash
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide***
• Bash by FSF & GNU

Other shell

• An introduction to C-Shell by W. Joy (pdf)

Editor

• Vim documentation
• my VI survival guide (in french) (pdf)
• VI quick reference (pdf)

Tools

• awk: a tool to process text file
  • Manual awk.
  • Tutorial awk.
• gnuplot; A plotting program
        User's manual (pdf)
• SVN/ subversion
• GNU software
• GIT a free and open source distributed version control system.

IV. Utilities

• Script to download rfc (sh)
• scp script to upload and download to and from a vm (virtual machine) fromDMI server (sh)
• Script to update a vm (sh)