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Nov 8, 2006

Tools of the Trade, Part III

A few more "must-have" tools to keep on hand:

  • 3D Traceroute (). Portable! Gotta have a good traceroute program, and 3D Traceroute is about as good as it gets.
  • Sam Spade (). Fantastic tool for IP lookups, DNS info, etc., etc. The site appears to be unavailable at the moment, but the Sam Spade tool is available for download at lots of sites around the net.
  • Wireshark (). A quality packet sniffer is just something you must have. You can't even hope to dig into what is going on throughout your network if you don't have a good packet sniffer. Formerly known as Ethereal, Wireshark is the cream of the crop.
  • Cygwin (). Cygwin provides a Linux-like environment in Windows. If you can afford the disk space, it is probably worth doing a full install. Tons of tools that we know and love from Linux now available in Windows. For me, it makes life much less stressful.

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