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Re: What is your favorite Network Tools Live CD / USB, which you could have running in remote offices?
From: Dan White <dwhite () olp net>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:14:29 -0500
On 08/22/13 12:06 -0500, Stefan wrote:
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 ...
live-build (Debian based) is what I've been using, and has the benefit of allowing you to pick and choose from Debian's vast repository. Here's my latest build script: http://web.olp.net/dwhite/lb.txt -- Dan White
Current thread:
- [Q] What is your favorite Network Tools Live CD / USB, which you could have running in remote offices? Stefan (Aug 22)
- Re: [Q] What is your favorite Network Tools Live CD / USB, which you could have running in remote offices? Michael Shuler (Aug 22)
- Re: What is your favorite Network Tools Live CD / USB, which you could have running in remote offices? Dan White (Aug 22)
- Re: [Q] What is your favorite Network Tools Live CD / USB, which you could have running in remote offices? Jon Meek (Aug 22)
- Re: [Q] What is your favorite Network Tools Live CD / USB, which you could have running in remote offices? Eduardo Schoedler (Aug 22)
- Re: [Q] What is your favorite Network Tools Live CD / USB, which you could have running in remote offices? Christopher X. Candreva (Aug 22)