Hi, rlhamil, I think the most important thing that's missing from IPS (and the OpenSolaris Live CD) is the arping utility:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arping It's pretty much impossible for any kind of TCP/IP network administrator or *nix tech to do their jobs nowadays without that arping utility. If a customer calls in and says that he thinks his server is not working because another customer is stealing his IP address. How do you debug that without arping if you're just a low-ranking data-center tech and don't have the login credentials for the CISCO distribution layer switches? Also, how do you "ping" a server to see if it's up on the network if the customer has their Windows firewall turned on and the server won't respond to ICMP packets? There's just no way to do it without arping. This utility is absolutely ESSENTIAL and it's already included with the default minimal installations of every other Linux and Unix based operating system except for Solaris / OpenSolaris and maybe AIX / HP-UX. There's two different versions of arping- the GNU one for Linux only, and another one for *BSD and Solaris and everybody else (written by Thomas Habets) I've e-mailed back and forth before with Thomas Habets, the author of arping, and he seems to have a positive attitude about us using his stuff for OpenSolaris. I don't remember what license he released the souce code under though (I think it might be under the BSD license?), however Habets's code is dependent on the libnet library, so I guess that has to be installed as well. Come on guys, don't tell me that I'm going to have to give up Dtrace and Solaris Zones and ZFS and Sun Studio and all the other Sun Microsystems goodies and run Red Hat or FreeBSD or Ubuntu at work just because I need a silly little open source utility like arping to do my job properly. This is Thomas Habets's web site: http://www.habets.pp.se/synscan/programs.php?prog=arping -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
