A quick bunch of tools that are now in my “tool box” to help with figuring out what might be wrong with a network.
- Ping: tests connectivity between devices on a network.
- Traceroute: tracks the path data takes to reach its destination
- Ipconfig/ifconfig: displays network configuration details on Windows/Linux systems
- Nslookup: queries DNS to obtain domain name or IP address mapping
- Netstat: displays network connections, routing tables and interface statistics
- Wireshark: captures and analyzes network traffic
- Nmap: scans networks for open ports and services
- Tcpdump: captures and analyzes network packets on Unix-like systems
- Pathping: combines ping and traceroute to identify network issues
- Mtr (My Traceroute): provides continuous network path analysis
Seems like a few of these tools I already knew about and look forward to playing around with for sure.
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