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Command Line Tools - Networking

Jamie Tees
These tools are using in command prompt, some commands will only work on an elevated command
prompt and some tools may only work in the Windows RE *Recovery Environment*.

I have just listed basic functionality. Please note there is many different switches and you may want
to do a /? Switch to find out what a certain switch does on a certain command. I’m splitting these
command line tools up to the different sections that we have to learn.

PING

 Checks if you can connect to another server / computer


 It basically sends a couple of packets that get bounced or echoed off the computer back to
your computer. It will then tell you how long it take normally in ms (Milli-seconds)

TRACERT

 Shows the user the route that a packet takes to get to it’s destination computer.
 Each server it bounces off to get to it’s destination is called a hop

NETSTAT

 Shows all current connections using your network connection


 To stop it tracking active connections hold CTRL + C

IPCONFIG

 Shows all of your network settings (If you use the /all switch), really handy to check if you
have an APIPA address or a DHCP address and easy to diagnose what the problem with your
network configuration is.
 You can release a DHCP address using ipconfig /release
 You can request a new IP from DHCP using ipconfig /renew
 If your having issues trying to access files / websites / connecting to computers it could be
that your or their hostname is cached in the DNS and the DNS cache has to be refreshed by
using: ipconfig /flushdns

NET

 Allows you to view a network quickly from CMD.


 Typing net view will return a list of all the Windows Computers on the network.
 If you know the computer name you can type net view followed by the computer name to
show the shared folders and files on a computer

NSLOOKUP

 Enables you to determine exactly what information the DNS server is giving you about a
certain hostname or website URL
 To leave this application use CTRL + C or type exit.

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Command Line Tools - Networking
Jamie Tees
NBTSTAT

 Is an old command line utility that was introduced before Windows.


 Stands for NetBIOS over TCP/IP Statistics.
 Outdated but great for finding anything window’s on your network. Such as other
workgroups / domains, also checks to see what your connected to. You can do this with:
nbtstat -s

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