Network tools

This page lists various network tools. ping and ip are covered by Network configuration.

Traceroute

Traceroute is a tool to display the path of packets across an IP network.

There are several implementations available:

• tracepath(8) from iputils (required by base)
• traceroute(8) from traceroute
• MTR — Combines the functionality of traceroute and ping into one tool.

https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/ || mtr, mtr-gtk

Netcat

See also Wikipedia:Netcat.

• GNU Netcat — GNU rewrite of netcat, the network piping application. Does not support IPv6.

https://netcat.sourceforge.net/ || gnu-netcat

• Ncat — Netcat implementation from Nmap project.

https://nmap.org/ncat/ || nmap

• OpenBSD netcat — TCP/IP swiss army knife. OpenBSD variant, with more features.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/netcat-openbsd || openbsd-netcat

A more complex alternative is socat.

Whois

See also Wikipedia:WHOIS.

• whois — Intelligent WHOIS client.

https://github.com/rfc1036/whois || whois

• jwhois — An Internet Whois client

https://www.gnu.org/software/jwhois/ || jwhois^AUR

inetd

Arch Linux does not have inetd but you can use systemd or xinetd (xinetd^AUR) instead.

See also

• List of applications/Security#Network security