Features

• Who Is At the Door: The SYN Denial of Service  by Douglas L. Stewart, P. Tobin Maginnis and Thomas Simpson
  What SYN really is, why it's needed in TCP/IP, why the denial of service attack works and how to prevent it.
  
• Network Management & Monitoring with Linux  by David Guerrero
  Monitoring network activity is a necessity for today's managers. Here are some handy and easily accessible tools for doing so.
  

News & Articles

• Ghosting onto the Net  by Scott Steadman
  
• Consistent Keyboard Configuration  by John F. Bunch
  

Reviews

• Product Reviews   Wabi 2.2  by Dwight L Johnson
  
• Product Reviews   OSS/Linux Sound Driver  by Jeff Tranter
  
• Book Reviews   Linux in a Nutshell  by Sid Wentworth
  
• Book Reviews   Programming with GNU Software  by Randyl Britten
  

WWWsmith

• Using MSQL in a Web-Based Production Environment  by B. Scott Burkett
  
• At the Forge   Creating a Multiple Choice Quiz System  by Reuven Lerner
  
• Marketsmith  by Doc Searls
  

Columns

• Letters to the Editor  
  
• From the Editor   LG and IELG  
  
• Stop the Presses   Uniforum '97  by Marjorie Richardson
  
• Linux Means Business   Traveling Linux: An Implementation Experience  by Maurizio Cachia
  
• Kernel Korner   Booting the Kernel  by Alessandro Rubini
  
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