Your LAN
Think you’ve got a hardcore LAN? Show us! Our latest contest is all about mapping your *home* network.
Map your network using an online diagram application like Gliffy, Dia on Linux or jNetMap — a cross-platform network mapping app developed by Hak5 fan Rakudave!
Then submit your entries as an image and description over in the new Hak5 forums Contest Submission gallery.
Entries will be judges on network creativity. Feel free to be as detailed as you’d like. No business or university networks please. If you have a site to site VPN between home and office that’s cool but no need to map past the initial link.
Entries are due by Friday May 29th. The winning network will be featured on episode 516. The winner will receive some cozy Hak5 gear from the HakShop.
HakHouse Network as mapped by jNetMap
The link for DIA is not right. The correct link is http://projects.gnome.org/dia/.
Irony points for anyone who maps a network with three nodes or less.
jNetMap looks great, but it just checks for open ports when “pinging” — it doesn’t use standard ICMP ping requests.
It would be nice to see the aliveness tests include a check for actively refused connections (closed ports), too.
Remember to post your WAN IP when you’re posting the map. xD (Just kidding.
@Martin: I’m working on that, wait for version 0.2 ^^
Good news everyone!
Version 0.3 of jNetMap is here, with a metric ***load of new features, including automatic updates and bent lines!
http://www.rakudave.ch/?q=jnetmap#download
Is there a problem w/ the new 0.3 jNatMap? It DL’s as a zip but expands w/ no .exe inside. How do you get it working?
You were downloading the source code. Install the Java Runtime Environment and then download the executable .jar file.
(The whole point of using Java is that there is no .exe file, as this would only work on Windows. And we wouldn’t want that, now would we?
http://twitpic.com/ch6z9/full