Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make the meeting last night but I am very interested in hearing the part about getting the cable in the walls without major surgery. If you have anything written about that I would appreciate it very much. Thanks. Jeff
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 10:07 PM Subject: [brluglist] good meeting > 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. > ================================================ > ================================================ 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. ================================================
