need professional advice!!
 

I thought that would get someones attention. I am in a security fundamentals class and we are learning about the basics. I would like to know how to set up a small home network with a sniffer and intrution detection software. lastly able to detect, track down intruders and who they are. any suggestions? I am a complete newbie. I have a dlink firewall wireless router DI-624 and 5 workstations, no server.dsl connection. need to learn this stuff and how to do a vlan and how to tunnel to my friends house. it is alot but any help will be greatly appriciated guys.
thanks!

speedbump1963/ironleg1963
(see i canot decide who i am! :D )

anyone out there who can help?
everyone must be looking towards turkey day so i will try again later. thanks again

Would respond with answer but to tired atm. Hopefuly someone will respond in a few days or I will. ;)

Alright you can do the VPN thing with the internet connection wizard in XP, you can accept incoming connections and make a remote connection! pretty easy, however I'm not a big fan of Microsoft stuff, so If you are looking for an outside solution for the VPN part check out the below link..

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/N...PN_Server.html

now as far as reporting ppl that login to the computer. You would want a program like BlackICE, as I'm also not a fan of that, just use zonealarm its free, and you can always do a manual whois lookup on the IP addy and report them to the abuse address at there ISP that way. And you can always report them to a state or federal agency address.

I'm really tired, so everything I wrote may be totally off subject and if it is please let me know, I'm going to bed now! :)

Later,

~PCTech

Well download a copy of Ethereal. ;)