Command Line Tools

IFconfig

A Linux/Unix/Mac command that allows the operating system to setup network interfaces (NICs) and allow the user to view information about the configured network interfaces

MTR

A Linux/Unix/Mac command that combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping programs in a single net-work diagnostic tool

DIG

A Linux/Unix/Mac command that is used to query DNS nameservers for information about host addresses, mail exchanges, nameservers, and related information

PING

Command used to test connection between two computers or time/distance

TRACERT

Command used to view a listing of how a network packet travels through the network and show were it may fail or slowdown

Nbstat

This command displays NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) protocol statistics, NetBIOS name tables for both the local computer and remote computers, and the NetBIOS name cache

NETSTAT

This command displays active TCP connections, ports on which the computer is listening, Ethernet statistics, the IP routing table, etc.

ARP

This command displays and modifies entries in the Address Resolution Protocol cache.

ROUTE

This command displays and modifies the entries in the local IP routing table

NSLOOKUP

This command displays information that you can use to diagnose Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure (can get DNS server name and IP)

HOSTNAME

This command displays the host name portion of the full computer name of the computer.

IPCONFIG

This command displays your current TCP/IP network configuration (address, subnet, MAC, Host, DHCP, etc.)