In the first post of this series we left with a running Ubuntu 15.04 container.

Now it's time to install software inside the container.

Docker and more generic Linux containers technology are a hot topic these days. The website says "for developers and sysadmins", I am neither of the two but I can still find some useful applications for containers as a Network Engineer.

Let's start from the basics.

A nice and free manual to manage Debian Linux:

A reference book presenting the Debian distribution, from initial installation to configuration of services.

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Tomahawk is a command line tool for testing network-based intrusion prevention systems (NIPS).

The concept is simple, you can download virus,attacks,exploit pcaps from many sources and save them on the Tomahawk machine. To test an IPS you need tree network interfaces: one for management, one to send traffic and one to …