perfSONAR-PS project - http://www.perfsonar.net/ On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Tomasz Rola <rtomek@ceti.pl> wrote:
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Michael Shuler wrote:
On 08/22/2013 12:06 PM, 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?
http://www.kali.org/ - it is completely customizable, as well.
Alternatively, GRML Linux:
I understand it is more about admin than pentesting. Also, last time I downloaded (few months ago), images were somewhere in <=~ 400MB area (vs Kali's 2GB, AFAIK). I am not sure about customizations. It is some kind of Debian's relative, so, in theory, why not.
BTW, I am long time lurker and this is my first post here, so hello everybody. You guys know what are your interests - mine are there, too, either full set or a subset.
Regards, Tomasz Rola
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