Chapter 7. The Old-boy Network

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Setting up the network

• Let us ping!

• Listing all the machines alive on a network

• Running commands on a remote host with SSH

• 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

• Creating arbitrary sockets

• Sharing an Internet connection

• Basic firewall using iptables