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50+ Linux networking commands and their explanation πŸ§΅β†“
β†’ arp - see your arp table.
β†’ aria2 – downloading just about everything. Torrents included.
β†’ arpwatch – Ethernet Activity Monitor.
β†’ bmon – bandwidth monitor and rate estimator.
β†’ bwm-ng – live network bandwidth monitor.
β†’ curl – transferring data with URLs.(or try httpie)
β†’ darkstat – captures network traffic, usage statistics.
β†’ dhclient – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Client
β†’ dig – query DNS servers for information.
β†’ dstat – replacement for vmstat, iostat, mpstat, netstat and ifstat.
β†’ ethtool – utility for controlling network drivers and hardware.
β†’ gated – gateway routing daemon.
β†’ host – DNS lookup utility.
β†’ hping – TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer.
β†’ ibmonitor – shows bandwidth and total data transferred.
β†’ ifstat – report network interfaces bandwidth.
β†’ iftop – display bandwidth usage.
β†’ ip – a command with more features than ifconfig.
β†’ iperf3 – network bandwidth measurement tool.
β†’ iproute2 – collection of utilities for controlling TCP/IP.
β†’ iptables – take control of network traffic.
β†’ IPTraf – An IP Network Monitor.
β†’ iputils – set of small useful utilities for Linux networking.
β†’ iw – a new nl80211 based CLI configuration utility β†’ for wireless devices.
β†’ jwhois (whois) – client for the whois service.
β†’ lsof -i – reveal information about your network sockets.
β†’ mtr – network diagnostic tool.
β†’ net-tools – utilities include: arp, hostname, ifconfig, netstat, rarp, route, plipconfig, slattach, mii-tool, iptunnel and ipmaddr.
β†’ ncat – improved re-implementation of the venerable netcat.
β†’ netcat – networking utility for reading/writing network connections.
β†’ nethogs – a small β€˜net top’ tool.
β†’ Netperf – Network bandwidth Testing.
β†’ netplan – Netplan is a utility for easily configuring
β†’ networking on a linux system.
β†’ netsniff-ng – Swiss army knife for daily Linux network plumbing.
β†’ netwatch – monitoring Network Connections.
β†’ ngrep – grep applied to the network layer.
β†’ nload – display network usage.
β†’ nmap – network discovery and security auditing.
β†’ nmcli – a command-line tool for controlling NetworkManager and reporting network status.
β†’ nmtui – provides a text interface to configure networking by controlling NetworkManager.
β†’ nslookup – query Internet name servers interactively.
β†’ ping – send icmp echo_request to network hosts to test connectivity.
β†’ route – show / manipulate the IP routing table.
β†’ slurm – network load monitor.
β†’ snort – Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System.
β†’ smokeping – keeps track of your network latency.
β†’ socat – establishes two bidirectional byte streams and transfers data between them.
β†’ speedometer – Measure and display the rate of data across a network.
β†’ speedtest-cli – test internet bandwidth using speedtest.net
β†’ ss – utility to investigate sockets.
speedtest.net
β†’ ssh – secure system administration and file transfers over insecure networks.
β†’ tcpdump – command-line packet analyzer.
β†’ tcptrack – Displays information about tcp connections on a network interface.
β†’ telnet – user interface to the TELNET protocol.
β†’ tracepath – very similar function to traceroute.
β†’ traceroute – print the route packets trace to network host.
β†’ vnStat – network traffic monitor.
β†’ websocat – Connection forwarder from/to web sockets to/from usual sockets, in style of socat.
β†’ wget – retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS.
β†’ Wireless Tools for Linux – includes iwconfig, iwlist, iwspy, iwpriv and ifrename.
β†’ Wireshark – network protocol analyzer.
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