The Toolkit

  • netstat - Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multi‐cast memberships
  • netperf - a network performance benchmark
  • dig - DNS lookup utility
  • host - another DNS lookup utility
  • nslookup - yet another DNS lookup utility
  • ping - send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
  • traceroute - print the route packets trace to network host
  • tracepath - trace route tool
  • mtr - trace route tool
  • wireshark - Interactively dump and analyze network traffic