Jeff, I had asked Jerry after the last meeting if
he would be interested in presenting on some of
that sniffer stuff (Etnereal and openNMS). I'd
sure like to hear it. Sounds like he's still
interested so let's take him up on it. I
discovered the NMAP web site yesterday and
downloaded a bunch of stuff. When I get my desk
cleared off I want to play with all these things.
One thing I thought we could try is to have
several short presentations, 20-30min each.
That would give more people a chance to get
involved. But if Jerry wants to take longer I'm
all for it.
I could do one of those short slots to present
some Linux basics each month. If people want that,
I'll pull topics from one of the certification
books and we can move through it across the
months.
In any case I think we should plan to network the
machines and bring hubs. As we saw last time
Windows boxes have their place, especially for
demonstrating samba and testing browser access to
apache across various platforms. I'll configure an
NFS and SAMBA server for people to share files or
presenters to pass sofware and stuff to the group
across the network. Then there's UWIN to emulate
unix on a windows box and wine and vmware to
virtualize windows on a Linux box. Lots to do!
I'd love to get way into networking technology and
internet protocols. That will put us beyond other
Linux groups I've seen. Seems like we've got the
knowledge base for it.
I'm also wondering if we can include beginner
stuff and advanced stuff at the same meetings.
We'd catch a larger audience that way.
Is there anything in the works about a few of us
visiting this new meeting space in Hightstown?
(guess it's time for me to post my reasons for
wanting to hold the library space. I'll get on
it).
At the next library meeting,
if we put tables in sort of a half circle
arrangement opening to the audience everyone would
be able to see all the monitors and make it easier
to follow what's going on across the LAN.
Wayne
