Appendice A: Risorse

Suggeriamo le seguenti risorse per saperne di più sui vari aspetti del wireless networking. Per avere più link e risorse, visitate il nostro sito web all'indirizzo http://wndw.net/.

Antenne e progettazione di antenne

• Cushcraft documenti tecnici sulla progettazione delle antenne e sulla propagazione radio, http://www.cushcraft.com/comm/support/technical-papers.htm

• Progetti gratuiti di antenne, http://www.freeantennas.com/

• Hyperlink Tech, http://hyperlinktech.com/

• Pasadena Networks LLC, http://www.wlanparts.com/

• SuperPass, http://www.superpass.com/

• Unofficial NEC-2 code archives, http://www.si-list.org/swindex2.html

• Unofficial NEC-2 radio modeling tool home page, http://www.nittany-scientific.com/nec/

• Progetti di parabole per WiFi USB, http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/

Strumenti di analisi di rete

• Cacti network monitoring package, http://www.cacti.net/

• DSL esegue test di larghezza di banda e ne riporta i risultati, http://www.dslreports.com/stest

• Ethereal analizzatore di protocolli di rete, http://www.ethereal.com/

• Iperf strumento di test delle performance di rete, http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/

• iptraf diagnostica di rete, http://iptraf.seul.org/

• MRTG network monitoring and graphing tool, http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

• My TraceRoute network diagnostic tool, http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/

• Nagios network monitoring and event notification tool, http://www.nagios.org/

• Ntop network monitoring tool, http://www.ntop.org/

• RRDtool round robin database graphing utility, http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/

• SmokePing network latency and packet loss monitor, http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/

• SoftPerfect network analysis tools, http://www.softperfect.com/

• Squid transparent http proxy HOWTO, http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/TransparentProxy-2.html

• ttcp network performance testing tool, http://ftp.arl.mil/ftp/pub/ttcp/

Sicurezza

• AntiProxy http proxy circumvention tools and information, http://www.antiproxy.com/

• Anti-spyware tools, http://www.spychecker.com/

• Driftnet network monitoring utility, http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/driftnet/

• Etherpeg network monitoring utility, http://www.etherpeg.org/

• Introduction to OpenVPN, http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7949

• Lavasoft Ad-Aware spyware removal tool, http://www.lavasoft.de/

• OpenSSH secure shell and tunneling tool, http://openssh.org/

• OpenVPN encrypted tunnel setup guide, http://openvpn.net/howto.html

• Privoxy filtering web proxy, http://www.privoxy.org/

• PuTTY SSH client for Windows, http://www.putty.nl/

• Sawmill log analyzer, http://www.sawmill.net/

• Security of the WEP algorithm, http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html

• Spyware prevention for Windows XP (German), http://www.xp-antispy.de/

• Stunnel Universal SSL Wrapper, http://www.stunnel.org/

• TOR onion router, http://tor.eff.org/

• Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4, http://www.crypto.com/papers/others/rc4_ksaproc.ps

• Windows SCP client, http://winscp.net/

• Your 802.11 Wireless Network has No Clothes, http://www.cs.umd.edu/~waa/wireless.pdf

• ZoneAlarm personal firewall for Windows, http://www.zonelabs.com/

Ottimizzazione di banda

• Cache heirarchies with Squid, http://squid-docs.sourceforge.net/latest/html/c2075.html

• dnsmasq caching DNS and DHCP server, http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html

• Enhancing International World Wide Web Access in Mozambique Through the Use of Mirroring and Caching Proxies, http://www.isoc.org/inet97/ans97/cloet.htm

• Fluff file distribution utility, http://www.bristol.ac.uk/fluff/

• Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server, http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/

• Microsoft ISA Server Firewall and Cache resource site, http://www.isaserver.org/

• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's guide to Enabling High Performance Data Transfers, http://www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html

• RFC 3135: Performance Enhancing Proxies Intended to Mitigate Link-Related Degradations, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3135

• Squid web proxy cache, http://squid-cache.org/

Mesh networking

• Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network software, http://cuwireless.net/download

• Freifunk OLSR mesh firmware for the Linksys WRT54G, http://www.freifunk.net/wiki/FreifunkFirmware

• MIT Roofnet Project, http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/roofnet/doku.php

• OLSR mesh networking daemon, http://www.olsr.org/

• Real-time OLSR topology viewer, http://meshcube.org/nylon/utils/olsr-topology-view.pl

Sistemi operativi e drivers wireless

• HostAP wireless driver for the Prism 2.5 chipset, http://hostap.epitest.fi/

• m0n0wall wireless router OS, http://m0n0.ch/wall/

• MadWiFi wireless driver for the Atheros chipset, http://madwifi.org/

• Metrix Pebble wireless router OS, http://metrix.net/metrix/howto/metrix-pebble.html

• OpenWRT wireless router OS for Linksys access points, http://openwrt.org/

• Pebble Linux, http://nycwireless.net/pebble/

Wireless tools

• Chillispot captive portal, http://www.chillispot.org/

• Interactive Wireless Network Design Analysis Utilities, http://www.qsl.net/n9zia/wireless/page09.html

• KisMAC wireless monitor for Mac OS X, http://kismac.binaervarianz.de/

• Kismet wireless network monitoring tool, http://www.kismetwireless.net/

• MacStumbler wireless network detection tool for Mac OS X, http://www.macstumbler.com/

• NetStumbler wireless network detection tool for Windows and Pocket PC, http://www.netstumbler.com/

• NoCatSplash captive portal, http://nocat.net/download/NoCatSplash/

• PHPMyPrePaid prepaid ticketing system, http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyprepaid/

• RadioMobile radio performance modeling tool, http://www.cplus.org/rmw/

• Terabeam wireless link calculation tools, http://www.terabeam.com/support/calculations/index.php

• Wellenreiter wireless network detection tool for Linux, http://www.wellenreiter.net/

• WiFiDog captive portal, http://www.wifidog.org/

• Wireless Network Link Analysis tool by GBPRR, http://my.athenet.net/~multiplx/cgi-bin/wireless.main.cgi

Informazioni generali sul wireless

• DefCon long distance WiFi shootout, http://www.wifi-shootout.com/

• Homebrew wireless hardware designs, http://www.w1ghz.org/

• Linksys wireless access point information, http://linksysinfo.org/

• Linksys WRT54G resource guide, http://seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/LinksysWrt54g

• NoCat community wireless group, http://nocat.net/

• POE guide by NYCWireless, http://nycwireless.net/poe/

• Ronja optical data link hardware, http://ronja.twibright.com/

• SeattleWireless community wireless group, http://seattlewireless.net/

• SeattleWireless Hardware comparison page, http://www.seattlewireless.net/HardwareComparison

• Stephen Foskett's Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Calculator, http://www.gweep.net/~sfoskett/tech/poecalc.html

Produttori di hardware per networking

• Alvarion wireless networking equipment, http://www.alvarion.com/

• Cisco wireless networking equipment, http://www.cisco.com/

• Metrix outdoor wireless networking kits, http://metrix.net/

• Mikrotik wireless network equipment, http://www.mikrotik.com/routers.php#linx1part0

• PowerNOC outdoor wireless networking equipment, http://powernoc.us/outdoor_bridge.html

• RAD Data Communications networking hardware, http://www.rad.com/

• Redline Communications WiMax wireless networking equipment, http://www.redlinecommunications.com/

• Trango wireless networking hardware, http://www.trangobroadband.com/

• WaveRider wireless hardware, http://www.waverider.com/

Networking services

• Access Kenya ISP, http://www.accesskenya.com/

• Broadband Access Ltd. wireless broadband carrier, http://www.blue.co.ke/

• Virtual IT outsourcing, http://www.virtualit.biz/

• wire.less.dk consultancy and services, http://wire.less.dk/

Istruzione e corsi

• Association for Progressive Communications wireless connectivity projects, http://www.apc.org/wireless/

• International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, http://www.inasp.info/

• Makere University, Uganda, http://www.makerere.ac.ug/

• Radio Communications Unit of the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, http://wireless.ictp.trieste.it/

• World Summits on Free Information Infrastructures, http://www.wsfii.org/

Link vari

• Cygwin Linux-like environment for Windows, http://www.cygwin.com/

• Graphvis graph visualization tool, http://www.graphviz.org/

• ICTP bandwidth simulator, http://wireless.ictp.trieste.it/simulator/

• ImageMagick image manipulation tools and libraries, http://www.imagemagick.org/

• NodeDB war driving map database, http://www.nodedb.com/

• Open Relay DataBase, http://www.ordb.org/

• Partition Image disk utility for Linux, http://www.partimage.org/

• RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1918

• Spectropolis NYC art project, http://www.spectropolis.info/

• Ubuntu Linux, http://www.ubuntu.com/

• wget web utility for Windows, http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

• WiFiMaps war driving map database, http://www.wifimaps.com/

Libri

• 802.11 Networks: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition. Matthew Gast, O'Reilly Media. ISBN #0-596-10052-3
• 802.11 Wireless Network Site Surveying and Installation. Bruce Alexander, Cisco Press. ISBN #1-587-05164-8
• The ARRL Antenna Book, 20th Edition. R. Dean Straw (Editor), American Radio Relay League. ISBN #0-87259-904-3
• The ARRL UHF/Microwave Experimenter's Manual. American Radio Relay League. ISBN #0-87259-312-6
• Building Wireless Community Networks, 2nd Edition. Rob Flickenger, O'Reilly Media. ISBN #0-596-00502-4
• Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks. Jack Unger, Cisco Press. ISBN #1-587-05069-2
• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1. W. Richard Stevens, Addison-Wesley. ISBN #0-201-63346-9
• Wireless Hacks, 2nd Edition. Rob Flickenger and Roger Weeks, O'Reilly Media. ISBN #0-596-10144-9