Linux: Networking Command

70+ Linux networking commands and their explanation (bookmark this):

1. arp - see your arp table.
2. aria2 – downloading just about everything. Torrents included.
3. arpwatch – Ethernet Activity Monitor.
4. bmon – bandwidth monitor and rate estimator.
5. bwm-ng – live network bandwidth monitor.
6. curl – transferring data with URLs.(or try httpie).
7. darkstat – captures network traffic, usage statistics.
8. dhclient – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Client.
9. dig – query DNS servers for information.
10. dstat – replacement for vmstat, iostat, mpstat, netstat and ifstat.
11. ethtool – utility for controlling network drivers and hardware.
12. gated – gateway routing daemon.
13. host – DNS lookup utility.
14. hping – TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer.
15. ibmonitor – shows bandwidth and total data transferred.
16. ifstat – report network interfaces bandwidth.
17. iftop – display bandwidth usage.
18. ip – a command with more features than ifconfig.
19. iperf3 – network bandwidth measurement tool.
20. iproute2 – collection of utilities for controlling TCP/IP.
21. iptables – take control of network traffic.
22. IPTraf – An IP Network Monitor.
23. iputils – set of small useful utilities for Linux networking.
24. iw – a new nl80211 based CLI configuration utility → for wireless devices.
25. jwhois (whois) – client for the whois service.
26. lsof -i – reveal information about your network sockets.
27. mtr – network diagnostic tool.
28. .net-tools – utilities include: arp, hostname, ifconfig, netstat, rarp, route, plipconfig, slattach, mii-tool, iptunnel and ipmaddr.
29. ncat – improved re-implementation of the venerable netcat.
30. netcat – networking utility for reading/writing network connections.
31. nethogs – a small ‘net top’ tool.
32. Netperf – Network bandwidth Testing.
33. netplan – Netplan is a utility for easily configuring.
34. networking on a linux system.
35. netsniff-ng – Swiss army knife for daily Linux network plumbing.
36. netwatch – monitoring Network Connections.
37. ngrep – grep applied to the network layer.
38. nload – display network usage.
39. nmap – network discovery and security auditing.
40. nmcli – a command-line tool for controlling NetworkManager and reporting network status.
41. nmtui – provides a text interface to configure networking by controlling NetworkManager.
42. nslookup – query Internet name servers interactively.
43. ping – send icmp echo_request to network hosts to test connectivity.
44. route – show / manipulate the IP routing table.
45. slurm – network load monitor.
46. snort – Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System.
47. smokeping – keeps track of your network latency.
48. socat – establishes two bidirectional byte streams and transfers data between them.
49. speedometer – Measure and display the rate of data across a network.
50. speedtest-cli – test internet bandwidth using http://speedtest.net
51. ss – utility to investigate sockets.
52. ssh – secure system administration and file transfers over insecure networks. speedtest.net
53. tcpdump – command-line packet analyzer.
54. tcptrack – Displays information about tcp connections on a network interface.
55. telnet – user interface to the TELNET protocol.
56. tracepath – very similar function to traceroute.
57. traceroute – print the route packets trace to network host.
58. vnStat – network traffic monitor.
59. websocat – Connection forwarder from/to web sockets to/from usual sockets, in style of socat.
60. wget – retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS.
61. iwconfig - similar to ifconfig, but is dedicated to the wireless interfaces.
62. iwlist - used to display some additional information from a wireless network interface that is not displayed by iwconfig.
63. iwspy - used to set a list of addresses to monitor in a wireless network interface and to read back quality of link information for each of those.
64. iwpriv - used to manipulate parameters and setting of the Wireless Extension specific to each driver (as opposed to iwconfig which deals with generic ones)
65. ifrename - is a tool that allows you to assign a consistent name to each of your network interface.
66. Wireshark – network protocol analyzer.
67. netstat - displays TCP network connections, routing tables, and a variety of network interface and network protocol statistics.
68. ifconfig - stands for "interface configuration." It is used to view and change the configuration of the network interfaces on your system.
69. iwgetid - used to find out the NWID, ESSID or AP/Cell Address of the wireless network that is currently used.
70. iwevent - displays Wireless Events received through the RTNetlink socket
71. route - allows you to make manual entries into the network routing tables.
72. hostname - used to obtain the DNS(Domain Name System) name and set the system's hostname