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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:

- tracepath(8) from iputils (required by base)
- traceroute(8) from traceroute
- MTR — Combines the functionality of traceroute and ping into one tool.

  https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/ || mtr, mtr-gtk

## Netcat

See also Wikipedia:Netcat.

- GNU Netcat — GNU rewrite of netcat, the network piping application. Does not support IPv6.

  https://netcat.sourceforge.net/ || gnu-netcat

- LibreSSL netcat — Low level UDP/TCP connection tool with support for TLS protocol.

  https://www.libressl.org || libressl-netcatAUR

- Ncat — Netcat implementation from Nmap project.

  https://nmap.org/ncat/ || nmap

- OpenBSD netcat — TCP/IP swiss army knife. OpenBSD variant, with more features.

  https://packages.debian.org/sid/netcat-openbsd || openbsd-netcat

A more complex alternative is socat.

## Whois

See also Wikipedia:WHOIS.

- whois — Intelligent WHOIS client.

  https://github.com/rfc1036/whois || whois

- jwhois — An Internet Whois client

  https://www.gnu.org/software/jwhois/ || jwhoisAUR

## inetd

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

## See also

- List of applications/Security#Network security

Categories:

- Networking
- Lists of software