[c-nsp] Top 10 Network Engineering Tools

[john heasley]

Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:02:54PM -0800, 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

rcpd and ftp; tftp doesnt really cut it anymore.

> 6. Rancid
> 
> 7. A SQL database, with configuration infrastructure
> 
> 8. ping, traceroute, whois
> 
> 
> Tony
> 
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