Simple way to test if a port is available to the public. Run this command on the "server" and run a `telnet host-ip port-number` on the client. Test by sending strings to the server, which will be displayed in the server terminal.
Shows which applications are making connections, and the addresses they're connecting to. Refreshes every 2 seconds (watch's default). Test on OSX, should work anywhere watch and lsof work. Show Sample Output
Wakes up a computer on your LAN with a Wake-On-LAN packet. MAC Address must match the NIC MAC, computer must have WOL enabled in the BIOS. Show Sample Output
A grep against ethtool to look for common errors and packet loss statistics which network drivers report in their private data, which is queried with ethool -S. This is the current grep used in xsos (https://github.com/ryran/xsos), which I originally contributed and has been improved by the community over time. Show Sample Output
It will list your machine's ethernet ports speed Show Sample Output
This can be added to ~/.bashrc with your other shell aliases. Emulates similar look & feel to ping6 & traceroute6. Show Sample Output
This option selects the listing of all Internet and x.25 (HP-UX) network files. Show Sample Output
This option is much faster, as it checks only network nodes. Show Sample Output
Displays live hosts on the same network as the local machine with their hostnames and IP addresses.
This command is IPv6 and multiple network adapter safe and does not rely on awk or sed, however it requires the "nmap" package installed. Might not work on OSX.
Example alias for shell startup file:
alias livehosts='nmap -sP "$(ip -4 -o route get 1 | cut -d " " -f 7)"/24 | grep report | cut -d " " -f 5-'
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