Links to Home Network Products, Security Sources & Information

Digital Dream Home

The Digital Dream Home Lots of information on the products available from Diamond products.

 

HomepcLan Good tutorials and lots of info on products as well.

Home Automation Times  An e-zine about the home automation  industry.
LinkSys Network Page Lots of information about building networks in the home.

Netgear Home Page Lots of really good home network equipment.

Practically Networked Lots of articles on small networks since 1998

Microsoft Home Networking Microsoft has a great deal of information on this subject.

Home Wireless Networks Wireless Home Networking is becoming very easy to do and more economical.
Internet Connection Sharing  Good information on Internet Connection Sharing in Windows 98

Get Plugged Home Networks Get Plugged is another good home network site

Cable Modem  Information Network Get the information about cable modem networking that you need. 

Covad DSL Information The DSL information on this site will help you to understand and evaluate DSL services available from Covad.

Telocity DSL Service This DSL provider has some great plans to suit most people with home networks. They feature a static IP address and SDSL service.
Residential Cabling Systems Designed for home computing, home automation, home entertainment and the home office networks, The Siemon Home Cabling SystemŽ is a structured cabling solution designed to meet the needs of today’s builders, developers, and ultimately, the homeowner.

How Things Work Page There is a lot of information on this site about things other than home networking. This links leads to the network "stuff"
Internet Connection Sharing FAQ Microsoft ICS Help Page (very well done)
General Knowledge Bank Good Place to find out more terms and definitions of home networking as well as many more topics.
Home Automation and Networking Good site to find out about home automation and networking.
ZDNet Home Networking Site The ZDNet site has a number of informational articles. Some like the ones you see here.
Source Forge Site This site is full of good information on networking projects, especially ones written with Linux in mind.
Home Network Help HomeNetHelp.com is home computer networking and Internet connection sharing help for beginner and intermediate users. Product reviews that are easy to read, great tutorials, rebate lists, forums, diagrams and more
Earthlink Home Networking Page With EarthLink, setting up a home network couldn't be simpler.
Basic Guide to Home Network Security Constant connectivity to the information superhighway may come at a higher price than you bargained for, read on for more information.
Cyberwall Product Page This product is a home network intrusion protection system.
CT-Home Networks Security Page Home network security site from CT-Networks
Linux Security News Page Linux security news page
New Voice News Home Networking Security New Voice News basic home network security
Firewall Guide Overview The Home PC Firewall Guide contains links to hundreds of other web sites.
CERT Home Network Security Computer Emergency Response Team Home Network Security Page

Linux Security -- All you could want

Sendmail - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sendmail2/
Linux Network Admin Guide (NAG) - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linag/
Running Linux - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux2/noframes.html
DNS & BIND - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dns3/
Apache - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/apache2/
Learning The Bash Shell - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bash2/
Building Internet Firewalls - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/fire/
Computer Crime - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/crime/
Computer Security Basics - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/csb/
Cracking DES - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/crackdes/
Essential System Administration - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esa2/
Linux in a nutshell - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxnut2/
Managing NFS and NIS - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/nfs/
Managing Usenet - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/musenet/
PGP - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pgp/
Practical Unix and Internet Security - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/puis/
Running Linux - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux2/
Using and Managing PPP - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/umppp/
Virtual Private Networks - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vpn2/

Red Hat/SAMS also publish several interesting books:
Maximum RPM (available as a postscript document on http://www.rpm.org/)
Red Hat User's Guide (available as HTML on ftp://ftp.redhat.com/)

SNMP, SNMPv2 and RMON - W. Stallings (ISBN: 0-201-63479-1)

Magazines:
Linux Journal (of course, monthly)
Sys Admin (intelligent articles, monthly)
Perl Journal (quarterly) 
Information Security - http://www.infosecuritymag.com/

Firewalling and Proxy Server HOWTO
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO.html

Linux IPCHAINS HOWTO
http://www.ibiblio.org/LDP/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html

Linux Security HOWTO
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO.html

Linux Shadow Password HOWTO
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Shadow-Password-HOWTO.html

The Linux CIPE + Masquerading mini-HOWTO
http://www.ibiblio.org/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Cipe+Masq.html

Firewall Piercing mini-HOWTO
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Firewall-Piercing.html

Quota mini-HOWTO
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Quota.html

Secure POP via SSH mini-HOWTO
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Secure-POP+SSH.html

The VPN HOWTO (using SSH)
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/VPN.html

Red Hat Knowledge Base
http://www.redhat.com/cgi-bin/support?faq

Bugtraq Archives
http://www.geek-girl.com/bugtraq/

CERT Incident Reporting Guidelines
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/incident_reporting.html

Site Security Handbook
http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/doc/standard/rfc/21xx/2196

Guidelines for the Secure Operation of the Internet
http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/doc/standard/rfc/12xx/1281

How to Handle and Identify Network Probes
http://www.network-defense.com/papers/probes.html

Free Firewall and related tools (large)
http://sites.inka.de/sites/lina/freefire-l/index_en.html

Internet FAQ Consortium (You want FAQ’s? We got FAQ’s!)
http://www.faqs.org/

An Architectural Overview of UNIX Network Security
http://www.alw.nih.gov/Security/Docs/network-security.html

The human side of computer security (an article on social engineering)
http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-07-1999/swol-07-security.html

IBM Redbooks
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/

 

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