Programs: networking
From wikinotes
TODO:
this could be organized better - maybe separate setup/applications/debugging/monitoring?
Network Connection Management
BSD
Freebsd networking FreeBSD ifconfig linux
netctl daemon to manage network interfaces network-manager daemon to manage network interfaces mmcli configure modems linux ip configure network interfaces linux iw configure wireless network auditctl audit kernel behaviour win32
netsh windows cli tool to modify/configure network configuration
Firewalls
BSD
pf firewall linux
nftables iptables firewalld
Monitoring
pftop monitor traffic through pf firewall.
Query Tools
Ad Blockers
pi hole
Network Tools
arp (ipv4) checks table mapping ipv4 addrs to mac addresses nd (ipv6) checks table mapping ipv6 addrs to mac addresses host DNS query iftop checks current network activity curl wget netcat netstat traceroute dig wireshark traffic introspection over network interface mitmproxy nmap traffic introspection over network interface (wireshark cli) sockstat list active ports/sockets tcpdump watch traffic over network interface nbtscan nload bandwidth usage by network iface ntop web ui for network traffic introspection iperf3 measure network latency between computers FreeBSD ifconfig FreeBSD route See Networking Overview for lists of tools categorized by network-layer.
DNS
dnsmasq DNS, DHCP bind-tools collection of dns tools whois query registered owners of internet resources/ip blocks dig nslookup host drill
Dynamic DNS
noip staticddns
VPN
wireguard openvpn torphantom