UDP send and listen for passing messages and test connectivity

Setting up a listener in UDP : Install socat Jist here (Centos 6.6 : http://jist.sudoall.com/socat/setup install curl “http://jist.sudoall.com/socat/setup” | bash – socat -u udp-recv:8888 – To send the datagram : nc -u 127.0.0.1 8888 njoy 😉

Moving a machine from one VM or physical box to another

This is the simple case where all we have is one disk that needs cloning. Assumptions for the following example Tools including backtrack distro available and permissible by company policy ( some c**ts get all agitated when sysadmins use a ‘knife’ to cut the ‘bread’ so be warned) Networking in place for the transfer preferable…