The Old-Boy Network

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

•  Setting up the network
•  Let us ping!
•  Tracing IP routes
•  Listing all available machines on a network
•  Running commands on a remote host with SSH
•  Running graphical commands on a remote machine
•  Transferring files through the network
•  Connecting to a wireless network
•  Password-less auto-login with SSH
•  Port forwarding using SSH
•  Mounting a remote drive at a local mount point
•  Network traffic and port analysis
•  Measuring network bandwidth
•  Creating arbitrary sockets
•  Building a bridge
•  Sharing an Internet connection
•  Basic firewall using iptables
•  Creating a Virtual Private Network