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nmap, iperf3 and parallel are available on AIX toolbox

  • 1.  nmap, iperf3 and parallel are available on AIX toolbox

    Posted Tue January 30, 2018 09:51 AM

    Originally posted by: sanket


     

    We are continuously updating and adding new packages to AIX toolbox as per our strategy and customer needs.

    Recently we have added following new packages to AIX toolbox.

     

    nmap : It is a network security scanner - ncat-7.60-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm

    iperf3 : Tool for network performance mesaurment - iperf3-3.2-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm

    paralle : A shell tool for running jobs in parallel - parallel-20170822-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm

     



  • 2.  Re: nmap, iperf3 and parallel are available on AIX toolbox

    Posted Fri February 02, 2018 04:18 PM

    Originally posted by: Dave_A


    Thanks for this. I've been compiling parallel myself but will be happy to switch to yours. However, your parallel has a dependency on the perl rpm. Is there a reason you couldn't just use the perl that already comes standard on every AIX server? That's what I've been doing with my compiles.
     



  • 3.  Re: nmap, iperf3 and parallel are available on AIX toolbox

    Posted Tue February 06, 2018 11:20 AM

    Originally posted by: AyappanP


    As far as i know , it has more to do with the flexibility.

    Perl (which comes with AIX Base) is required by some utilities that also comes with AIX Base OS. This perl won't be updated frequently so that it won't break the utilities.

    Whereas the perl in AIX Toolbox is easy to update and if any dependency breaks that also can be updated or rebuilt.