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Re: [Q] What is your favorite Network Tools Live CD / USB, which you
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eduardo Schoedler)
Thu Aug 22 15:29:26 2013
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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:29:19 -0300
From: Eduardo Schoedler <listas@esds.com.br>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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2013/8/22 Stefan <netfortius@gmail.com>
> I've been toying with Live distros (CD, then USB) for many years, in
> support of security toolsets, to which I kept adding my own stuff, or
> customizing existing components.
>
> I am now trying to "build" a network toolset LiveCD/USB, but this time with
> a completely different purpose: I would like to put it in the hands of all
> remote offices we have on our network, and use it to have local systems
> boot out of it, and help us then run troubleshooting tools, from the
> central office, by SSH/X-ing into the remote live system (e.g. iperf,
> hping3, httping, tcping, mtr, tcpdump, voip tools, some "thin"
> clients/apps, synthetic transactions scripted to run at diff time
> intervals, and report back to us the "health" seen form the remotes, etc.).
> Has anybody used a "base" network tools Live CD/USB that they would
> recommend, having used as "basis" for such a "network probe" functionality?
>
> NOTE: I assume *nix based (Linux or BSD flavors), not Windows ...
>
> TIA,
> ***Stefan
>
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Eduardo Schoedler
