Brian Thanks for the feedback.
I recently saw email thread on networking-discuss mailing list regarding use of Pen/Pound and ucarp on Solaris for lightweight load balancing and HA solution. How often are these solutions used specifically on Solaris(instead of Solaris propietory solutions)? Comparisons between Pen Pound and HAProxy would be appreciated. Sangeeta Brandorr wrote: > cdpr decoder for the Cisco Discovery Protocol. > tcpdump/libpcap. > Wireshark formerly known as Ethereal, Wireshark is a powerful network > analyzer with support for more than 700 protocols. > ntop > D-ITG advanced traffic generator able to generate TCP, UDP, ICMP, > DNS, Telnet and VoIP traffic. > SIPp a test tool/traffic generator for the SIP protocol. > ttcp simple TCP and UDP Test utility, designed to test the > performance of a network link. > Nmap utility for network exploration and security auditing. > THC-Amap a scanning tool based on a database of triggers and responses. > > UMIT (requires installation) a graphical user interface for Nmap. > aircrack-ng > AirSnare (requires installation) network monitor useful for tracking > hosts that communicate on your network. > Oinkmaster a script to update and manage Snort rules. > SAM Jr java package that provides real-time analysis of Snort data. > > Snort a lightweight network intrusion detection system. > Kismet a wireless network detector, sniffer and IDS. > netcat reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or > UDP protocol. > ngrep grep-like utility to search inside network packets. > lsof opened files/devices/ports viewer. > Net-SNMP a suite of SNMP manager tools. > openSNMP?? > http://www.net.cmu.edu/groups/netdev/software.html > wget utility to perform non-interactive downloads of files via HTTP, > HTTPS, FTP. > libcurl > aircrack-ng a wireless networks auditing suite. > Hydra simple password revealer. > John the Ripper utility to discover weak passwords. > > Please not that some of these haven't been ported to Solaris yet. > > -Brian > > On 9/30/07, Sangeeta Misra <Sangeeta.Misra at sun.com> wrote: > >> >>Folks >> >>I am looking to come up with a list of networking related >>tools/libs/utilities and opensource technologies that we need to >>implement/port to Solaris to help the Solaris developer community >>expand. I have looked at >> >>http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php >>http://www.sunfreeware.com/ >> >>but dont have any information about relative popularity of package >>downloads from those websites. Thus I am asking for your feedback, So >>far my list contains the following: >> >>dovecot and postfix, nmap,libpcap, libnet, gpg/pgp, snort, PF_PACKET >>equivalent, ucarp >> >>Please provide input as to what other things the community would like to >>see in Solaris to help make Solaris a preferred development OS for >>appliances ( like firewall, CPE appliance ,deep packet inspection , >>data mining and other features) >> >>Sangeeta >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>appliances-discuss mailing list >>appliances-discuss at opensolaris.org >>http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/appliances-discuss >> > > >
