Thanks to everybody who participated! I think it was a successful meeting and I learned a lot. And thanks to Robert Leche for volunteering to help fill in for Dustin Puryear, who is stepping down from his duties as the BRLUG coordinator.
In case you missed it, we talked about lots of aspects involved in setting up a home network. John Beamon gave a really good talk on how to install network cable in your walls without reducing the value of your home. Thanks John! One thing we forgot to mention: /sbin/ifconfig To find out what it does: "man ifconfig". This command shows the current configuration of your network devices. You can also provide arguments to the command to configure your network device. And based on the interest shown in network security, packet sniffing and firewall configuration, John Beamon, Robert Leche and Ricky Salmon are going to talk about and demo this kinda stuff at the next meeting on 12/3/01 (which is a Monday, BTW (: ). They are planning to set up a small network at the meeting and show hands on how a hacker sniffs network traffic and breaks into a machine. I'd like to suggest that we also have a M$-Windoze box (d00d) on the network to show its vulnerabilities. One more thing: thanks to everyone who took the time to burn CDs of Linux distributions and software and donate them to the BRLUG library. You are helping in a big way to help other computer users discover Linux and what computer technology is really about. John Hebert ps: John Beamon, I have your punchdown tool. You left it at the meeting. Lemme know via [EMAIL PROTECTED] where we can meet so I can give it back to you. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
