Re: testing laptop based on bsd anyone

["Chris Kuethe" <chris.kuethe () gmail com>]

I'm running OpenBSD on a Thinkpad T42 and it's got plenty of ways to
get into trouble in a big hurry. In terms of wireless, I have both the
atheros a/b/g card and the intel b/g mini=pci cards, and I keep a
spare linksys prism2 pcmcia in my laptop bag just in case.

A lot of handy tools already exist in the ports tree, and a compentent
pen tester should be able to either do up a port of something that
isn't in the ports tree or just compile it from source and install it
somewhere else. If you're using linux binaries, compat_linux (or
whatever it's called on your BSD) should tell you how that works.
heck, wine might even work for running windows tools...

Assuming your testing tools aren't too braindamaged and suffering from
all-the-world-is-i386-fedora syndrome, you really shouldn't have that
many problems running test tools from BSD.

CK

On 3/7/06, Robin Wood <dninja () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi
> I'm having problems with wireless pen-tests due to the linux drivers
> for my wireless card and someone suggested trying one of the BSDs.
> Does anyone here use BSD as a base system for pen-testing from? I was
> going to go with FreeBSD as I have a little knowledge of it already.
> Any tips, tricks or gotchas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Robin
>
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