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'in-line' pentest and pentest linux distro?
From: Rob J Meijer <rmeijer () xs4all nl>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:33:13 +0200 (CEST)
When looking at enviroments with MAC locking and ID in place, and pentest possibilities from workstation locations, I've been trying to find some info on the 'in-line' way of working for such tests. It apears that I'm either the only one ever to have had the need for inline pentests, in order to test at workstation network connections that have MAC locking and ID in place, or that I just am using the wrong name for the concept. I'm interesting to know: 1) Is nobody running into MAC lock and MAC ID enviroments where the workstation network connections are relevant? 2) If anyone is, what are you using to do these tests, and would this be suitable for 'in-line' usage? 3) Is anyone seriously working on a pentest linux distro? 4) Do you think building and combining this functionality ino a specialized small linux distribution for something like the sigarete-box sized XXS1500, or something like it would be desirable for such functionality. I currently am occupied with an other big open source project, so I am hoping someone else has or will do some work on both the testing of MAC locked or MAC ID enabled enviroments and the creation of a pentest linux distro. I think I could fit in some porting to small devices from a basic PC Linux based distribution to such a device, if however I completely would have to role a new distribution from scratch, building lots of the tools myself, I would not be able to fit this in this year (unless someone needs it enough to actualy pay me for working on it, while keeping it open source). I think building a pentest inline device linux distro would be practical and usefull, but maybe its just my gadget madnes playing tricks on me ;-) Let me know what you think. Rob
Current thread:
- 'in-line' pentest and pentest linux distro? Rob J Meijer (Apr 12)
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- RE: 'in-line' pentest and pentest linux distro? Calvert, Douglas (Apr 12)
- Re: 'in-line' pentest and pentest linux distro? psiphon (Apr 12)
- Re: 'in-line' pentest and pentest linux distro? Bogdan Agica (Apr 13)