Monthly Archives: April 2010

TCP Traffic Redirection on Windows

Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 by Matti

A very nifty tool, called RINETD. Redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another. rinetd is a single-process server which handles any number of connections to the address/port pairs specified in the configfile. How to use it … Continue reading →

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How IPv6 Headers Are Formed, Compared To IPv4

Posted on Friday, April 9, 2010 by Matti

On the cisco.com website, there is an excellent write-up on IPv6 headers. The author describes in great detail how the IPv6 packets are created, and how they compare to IPv4. The IHL – or Internet Header Length – was removed from … Continue reading →

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IPv6 And Security: What You Probably Don’t Know

Posted on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 by Matti

For anyone claiming IPv6 is more secure than IPv4, take a deep breath, count to ten, and rethink your arguments again. While IPv6 has some technological advantages over IPv4, I wouldn’t go so far as saying it’s safer. Scanning ~3.7billion … Continue reading →

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Stateless Autoconfiguration To Replace DHCP For Some Systems

Posted on Friday, April 2, 2010 by Matti

Stateless Address Autoconfiguration is a technique where individual nodes in a network can generate their own unique IP address, based on a “network address” which the router will send out, and a unique part generated from the hosts’ MAC address. … Continue reading →

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