We recommend these resources for learning more about the various aspects of wireless networking. For more links and resources, see our website at http://wndw.net/.
Antennas and antenna design
Cushcraft technical papers on antenna design and radio propagation, http://www.cushcraft.com/comm/support/technical-papers.htm
Free antenna designs, http://www.freeantennas.com/
Hyperlink Tech, http://hyperlinktech.com/
Pasadena Networks LLC, http://www.wlanparts.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/
USB WiFi dish designs, http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/
Network troubleshooting tools
Cacti network monitoring package, http://www.cacti.net/
DSL Reports bandwidth speed tests, http://www.dslreports.com/stest
Ethereal network protocol analyzer, http://www.ethereal.com/
Iperf network performance testing tool, http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/
iptraf network diagnostic tool, 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/
Security
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/
Bandwidth optimization
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
Wireless operating systems and drivers
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
General wireless related information
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
Networking hardware vendors
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/
Training and education
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/
Miscellaneous links
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/
Books
- 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