LINUX NETWORKING COMMANDS ON BACKTRACK 5 LINUX NETWORKING COMMANDS

BACKTRACK 5 

Commands 

1. PING COMMAND 
2. ARP COMMAND 
3. IFCONFIG COMMAND 
4. PS COMMAND 
5. NETSTAT COMMAND 
6. ROUTE COMMAND 
7. NSLOOKUP COMMAND 
8. DIG COMMAND 
9. TRACEROUTE COMMAND 

PING COMMAND

• Ping command is used to test the IP  connectivity.
• Syntax : Ping < ipaddress/domain name >
• Example 1 : ping www.hackingdna.com
• Example 2 : ping 209.85.175.121
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ARP COMMAND 

• Arp stands for Address Resolution Protocol 
• Arp is used to  .find the MAC address of network neighbour for a given IPv4 Address.
• Arp with no specifier will print the current content of the table .
• Syntax : arp [ option ] 
• Example : arp 
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Arp with no specifier 

IFCONFIG COMMAND 

• Ifconfig command is used to view the network  configuration .
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PS COMMAND 

• Used to see all active processes.
• Example : ps 

  NETSTAT COMMAND 

ROUTE 

• Show / manipulate the ip routing table .
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NSLOOKUP COMMAND

• NSlookup is a pogram to query internet domain name servers .
• It can resolves name to IP addresses.
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DIG COMMAND 

• dig stand for domain information groper .
• dig - is a DNS lookup utility . 
• dig is a flexible tool for interrogating DNS name servers.
• It performs DNS lookups  and  displays  the  answers that are returned from the name servers that were queried. 
• Most DNS administrators use dig to troubleshoot DNS problems because of its flexibility, ease of use and clarity of output. 
• Other lookup tools tend to have less functionality than dig.
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TRACEROUTE COMMAND 

• This command traces the path to a destination .
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