[c-nsp] Top 10 Network Engineering Tools

[Tony Li]

> 1. A laptop with a built-in serial port or a USB-Serial converter that
> you know works (in fact, even if your laptop has a built-in serial
> port it could be useful to have a USB-Serial converter handy in case
> you need to connect to multiple devices at once).  Also need to make
> sure that your terminal client works well and that you know how to
> configure it to access all your serial ports.
>
> 2. Console cables for connecting to all of the various devices you are
> in charge of.
>
> 3. Wireshark
>
> 4. SSH & telnet clients.


5. An up-to-date, fully functional TFTP server

6. Rancid

7. A SQL database, with configuration infrastructure

8. ping, traceroute, whois


Tony