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On 00:14 Mon 17 Mar , Marco Mascherpa wrote: |
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> hi everyone, |
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> last week i was installing Gentoo on a brand new machine at work and i noticed |
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> againg that tcpdump and the telnet client are not available in the liveCD's |
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> environment. Why aren't they included? Is it about some policy or it's just |
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> nobody asked them yet? |
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> I think tcpdump in particular should be added, sometimes it's necessary to |
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> check out network stuff at a lower level; the telnet client would be very |
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> useful too, none ever thinks to use it to connect to remote shells, but |
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> sometimes it can be very useful to check out services and stuff. |
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> What do you think? |
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> Marco Mascherpa |
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It's almost funny that telnet isn't included, when ssh is. If you need |
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to connect to remotre shells you can ssh to them. But like you said it |
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cant be used to connect to certain services. |
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