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:

Netcat

See also Wikipedia:Netcat.

A more complex alternative is socat.

Whois

See also Wikipedia:WHOIS.

inetd

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

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