Tuesday, April 23, 2019


Network Utilities

1.     Ping:
Ping is a computer network administration software utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol network. It is available for virtually all operating systems that have networking capability, including most embedded network administration software.
2.     Netstat:
In computing, netstat is a command-line network utility tool that displays network connections for the Transmission Control Protocol, routing tables, and a number of network interface and network protocol statistics.            
3.     Ipconfig:
In computing, ipconfig is a console application of some operating systems that displays  all current TCP/IP network configuration values and can modify Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol and Domain Name System settings.
4.     Ifconfig:

Ifconfig is a system administration utility in Unix-like operating systems for network interface configuration. The utility is a command-line interface tool and is also used in the system startup scripts of many operating systems.
5.     ARP:

The Address Resolution Protocol is a communication protocol used for discovering the link layer address, such as a MAC address, associated with a given internet layer address, typically an IPv4 address. This mapping is a critical function in the Internet protocol suite.
6.     Trace-route:
In computing, traceroute and tracert are computer network diagnostic commands for displaying the route and measuring transit delays of packets across an Internet Protocol network.



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