Networking Tools

[techAdmin]

There are some very good networking tools available. Give them a try.
System Tools

• NMap. The father of them all, a great network scanner for establishing the security of your network configuration. Scans open ports and much more. The linux version is better than the Windows version, for obvious reasons.
  
• Ethereal. Network protocol and activity analyzer.
  

System Commands

• Windows: command line:
  ipconfig
  requires command line arguments, eg:
  ipconfig /all
  returns all ip configuration for host.
  
• Linux, Windows: command line:
  ping domainname or IP address
  ex: ping techpatterns.com
  returns ip address of domain name, time to connect. Tests if connections are working to other machines.
  
• Windows: command line:
  tracert
  traces route to ip or domain name. eg:
  tracert techpatterns.com
  returns the network paths followed from your machine to the server.
  
• Linux: command line:
  traceroute
  ex: traceroute techpatterns.com
  Much faster than the windows version, may require installing the traceroute utility.