Midterms was last week, and for one of my classes I had to write a mockup Risk Analysis and really generic Security Policy for a fake company. The point is during the Security policy part I was thinking about a network user policy that would be interesting to see. Basically the idea would be to have a security policy that gave users the ability to help diagnose security issues. Within reasonable restrictions though as to not be damaging to the network.

So I have this one single pc right now floating around here that doesn't have a cdrom drive. Hooking up a cdrom drive is an extreme hassle as the case only has room for a slim drive and I haven't gotten one for it. To make it more fun and exciting the machine won't boot off a usb flash drive or usb hard drive go figure. Either way that leaves me with a couple of choices on being able to perform an operating system installation. The first is to go out and purchase an external cdrom drive and just do it which is kind of lame and not very interesting.

Sniff was written shortly after I was introduced to C#. It is a network packet sniffer for windows. Sniff doesn't rely on winpcap but instead puts the network adapter into promiscuous mode. Also uses threading, one thread listens for traffic off the network adapter the other thread maintains the gui. .net 2.0 is required to run. The only thing with the program is that even though it is capturing data off the network adapter it won't actually read any data that doesn't have an ip address, so it won't pick up some traffic on the network.

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There are actually quite a few really good resources and good walk-throughs out there. There are a few things that really none of them talk about on any real level and that is what *should* be used or in which way it should be used. First off NFS does work with OS X Leopard and using the directory utility under the utilities folder in applications can be setup to automount. But NFS seemed really a pain to deal with and doesn't offer similar level of general functionality as AFP does.