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Welcome

This Wiki offers a means where users of the Network Security Toolkit (NST) can ask questions, share experiences, and offer advice in regards to the use of the NST distribution and the tools which it contains.

The NST homepage is located at: http://www.networksecuritytoolkit.org/. The NST SourceForge project page is located at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nst. One can download the current version of NST here. A reference about NST at Wikipedia can be found here.

NST users add yourself to a Platial generated NST Global Map.

You can view Webcasts related to NST on the NST Webcasts page.

NST Usage

• Fundamentals
  • Live CD/DVD Tips
  • Burning ISO's
  • Hard Disk Install Setup Tips
• Network Configuration
  • Network Setup Tips
  • Wireless Setup Tips
  • Determining IP Address
  • Firewall Setup Tips
  • IPv6
  • Tunnelling UDP Traffic Through An SSH Connection
  • Dummy Interface
• Network Packet Capture
  • Multi-Tap Network Packet Capturing
  • Network Packet Capturing Management & Status
• Tips and Notes on Using The Tools
  • Apache Notes
  • Bandwidthd
  • Mail Notes
  • MediaWiki
  • MySQL
  • Nagios/Fruity
  • Nessus
  • phpSysInfo
  • Sendmail
  • Snort
  • Squid
• Client Support
  • X Server
  • Windows Desktop
  • NST WUI Browser Support
• Serial
  • Serial Console - NST 2.x.x

Linux HowTos

• HowTo Download From The Command Line Using: "wget"
• HowTo Keep Processes Running After Logging Out Using: "setsid"
• HowTo Disable The "relatime" Method For "atime" Updates For A File

News

2009-09-22 NST Distribution v2.11.0 Release today. Download this release from the NST Project At SourceForge.

2009-05-04 IE8 now Support by NST

Starting with NST v2.10.x, NST now supports the IE8 Web Browser.

2009-04-28 NST Work Continues On Development Of The v2.10.x Architecture

Major enhancements include and entire RPM based NST distribution and a NST Live boot with USB data persistence.

2009-01-24 NST WUI v1.8.1 Maintenance Release Update

Remote System Command Enhancements: Added many new predefined VMware ESX Server and Enterprise Server Sun Ray commands. VMware professionals and Sun Ray server admins will love this one...

2009-01-17 NST WUI v1.8.1 Maintenance Release Update

Multi-Tap Network Packet Capture improvements: Individual network packet capture count thresholds can now be set for each Tap member. A total maximum packet count threshold can be set for the entire Multi-Tap session. Added a session/capture termination initiator indicator. Also added convenient "Replicate Down" action links to the Multi-Tap Start Capture Form. See the README file for additional information on the latest updates and fixes.

2009-01-08 NST Distribution v1.8.1 Release today.

2008-10-22 NST WUI Maintenance Updates

You can now customize the Nmap Predefined Scan Options. Use the "Restore Nmap Predefined Scan Options" button to make sure you have the latest updates from the "2008-10-22" NST WUI build. See the README file for additional information on the latest updates and fixes.

2008-10-20 NST WUI Maintenance Updates

A new maintenance update for the NST WUI management interface is now available for the NST v1.5.0 and v1.8.0 release. The Google Chrome Browser is now supported. See the README file for additional information on the latest updates and fixes.

2008-08-27 NST WUI Maintenance Updates

A new maintenance update for the NST WUI management interface is now available for the NST v1.5.0 and v1.8.0 release. See the README file for information on the latest updates and fixes.

2008-07-07 NST WUI Maintenance Updates

A maintenance update for the NST WUI management interface is now available for the NST v1.5.0 and v1.8.0 release. This release fixes capture start and end times when a capture file is empty. It also reflects fixes made to time thresholds during capture with Wireshark v1.0.0 and greater. See the README associated with the update for further details. Use the menu "System" => "Downloads & Updates" => "NST WUI Update Management" page for installation.

2008-07-05 Wireless Setup Tips

A new section: "Wireless Setup Tips" has been added which includes a section with details on setting up a WPA-PSK wireless connection using the NST WUI.

2008-06-28 NST version 1.8.0 has been released

Down this release from Source Forge.

2007-10-26 New NST World Map

We switched to Platial for the NST World Map. Please register and add yourself to the NST Global Map.

2007-08-22 Building From Source

Completed first pass at the Building From Source page for those interested in building the NST ISO from scratch.

2007-08-20 phpSysInfo

Added page showing how to get temperature and fan speed information added to the phpSysInfo output.

2007-06-14 Nessus v3.0.5

Detailed instructions for installing Nessus v3.0.5 onto a NST system can be found on the Nessus page - this has not been thoroughly tested (its been verified at least once).

2007-05-30 New Stable NST WUI Available

A stable update for the NST WUI management interface is now available for the NST v1.5.0 release. This updates include many enhancements to the Network Packet Capture Interface and bug fixes to the NST WUI. See the README associated with the update for further details. Use the "System" => "NST WUI Update Management" page for installation.

2007-04-01 Snort Patch Available

A patch is available to fix an issue in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/snortd file. This patch is only necessary for those that have hard disk installations and want the snortd service started at system boot time (see P200704011 in the Patch and Update Summary page for details).

2007-03-29 Graphviz Patch Available

A patch is available to fix an issue in the Graphviz package (see P200703171 in the Patch and Update Summary page for details).

2007-03-15 New NST WUI Available

A stable update for the NST WUI management interface is now available for the NST v1.5.0 release. This update includes many enhancements and bug fixes to the NST WUI. See the README associated with the update for further details. Use the "System" => "NST WUI Update Management" page for installation.

2007-03-10 Skype Available

One can now add the Skype (IM/VOIP client) package to a NST system from the NST Patch Management page (see U200703101 in the Patch and Update Summary page).

2007-03-09 Thunderbird Available

One can add Mozilla's Thunderbird (email/RSS/news client) to a NST system from the NST Patch Management page (see U200703091 in the Patch and Update Summary page).

2007-03-07 Snort Patch Updated Again

Applying patches to a Live CD has proven to be difficult. We have updated the snort patch once again to better support Live CD users. However, Live CD users will also need to update the NST WUI to the current development release. If you are using a hard disk or Virtual Machine installation of the NST and have already patched your system, you should not need to apply the new patch.

2007-03-06 Snort Patch Updated

The snort patch has been updated such that it will now work on a Live CD boot as well as a hard disk install. The 2.6.1.3 version of snort can be found at: "/usr/bin/snort". On a hard disk install, the old version (at: "/usr/local/snort/snort") will be replaced by a symbolic link to the new version. On a Live CD boot, the file: "/usr/local/snort/snort" can not be updated and will remain at the old 2.6.1.2 version (so, if you have any custom scripts, you should update them to use the new version at: "/usr/bin/snort").

2007-03-06 Snort Patch Available for NST 1.5.0

There is a security issue with the version of snort that shipped with the 1.5.0 release of the NST (see: http://www.snort.org/docs/advisory-2007-02-19.html). We have made a patch available (see the Patch and Update Summary page) to update snort to version 2.6.1.3 to address this issue. Unfortunately, this patch will not work on a Live CD boot (it only applies to hard disk installations and/or NST Virtual Machine installations). You may apply the patch by hand (review the patch instructions), or you may use the "NST Patch Management" page within the NST WUI to apply the patch.