Bandwidth Monitor Next Generation (BWM-NG) is a small and simple console-based live network and disk io bandwidth monitor for Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and others and is licensed under GPL2. It shows the input and output bandwidth used by each interfaces as well as total input and output bandwidth of all interfaces installed in your machine. BWM-NG supports different output methods like curses, plain, csv and html. BWM-NG is not limited in the number of interfaces in your machine, it can handle new interfaces dynamically while its running or hide those which are not up.

Features

• supports /proc/net/dev, netstat, getifaddr, sysctl, kstat, /proc/diskstats /proc/partitions, IOKit, devstat and libstatgrab
• unlimited number of interfaces/devices supported
• interfaces/devices are added or removed dynamically from list
• white-/blacklist of interfaces/devices
• output of KB/s, Kb/s, packets, errors, average, max and total sum
• output in curses, plain console, CSV or HTML
• configfile

Download the current version: bwm-ng-0.6.tar.gz (changelog)

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Good News! for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE, CentOS, Mandriva Linux, FreeBSD and Sun OpenSolaris users out there, rpm.org released version 5.0 of its RPM package management software.

RPM is a powerful and mature command-line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating Unix software packages.

Here are some features in RPM 5.0

• The Automake/Autoconf/Libtool-based build environment of RPM was completely revamped from scratch.
• Configuration is now through RPM macros during run time instead of through rpmrc.
• The RPM code base was ported to all major platforms, including the BSD, Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X Unix flavors and Windows/Cygwin.
• RPM packages now also support LZMA compression apart from Gzip and Bzip2.
• RPM is now able to automatically track vendor distribution files with its new vcheck(1) based “%track” section and now can automatically download the vendor distribution files too.

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ISIC is a suite of utilities to exercise the stability of an IP Stack and its component stacks (TCP, UDP, ICMP et. al.) It generates piles of pseudo random packets of the target protocol. The packets be given tendancies to conform to. Ie 50% of the packets generated can have IP Options. 25% of the packets can be IP fragments… But the percentages are arbitrary and most of the packet fields have a configurable tendancy.

The packets are then sent against the target machine to either penetrate its firewall rules or find bugs in the IP stack.

ISIC also contains a utility generate raw ether frames to examine hardware implementations.

WARNING: ISIC may break shit, melt your network, knock out your firewall, or singe the fur off your cat

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