Basic Networking Commands

 Basic Network commands in linux

What is a network?

• A Network is a connection between atleast two computer.
• The connection can be either wired or wireless.
• There are some basic command in linux by using which we can check about our connection and the network that we trying to connect.
• Networking is one of most important concept in cyber security.
• Networking is a vast concept.
• Here lets see some basic network command in linux.

• PING COMMAND:
• It is a command used to check whether our computer is active or able to make connection with other computer.
• It can be used to check connection between computers with same network,websites,ip addresss,urls,..
• command : ping <network url or network ip>
• Lets ping "google.com"
  
  
  
• Ping request will not affect the website.It will not stop by itself ,It can be stopped by Ctrl+C (Key to stop a process).
• Lets ping our blog url and stop it after few ping.

  

  
  
• TRACEROUTE COMMAND:
• It is used to check what is the route used by our network to reach the destiny network.
• Command : traceroute <url>
  
  
  
• These are the route taken by the network.It will not be same always.
• IFCONFIG COMMAND:
• It is used to check what are the connection that are available.
• Either wired(Ethernet) or wireless connection(Router).
• Command: ifconfig
  
  
  
• Here I had two connection , system loopback connection "lo" and Ethernet "eth0".
• NETSTAT COMMAND:
• It is used to check the network status.
• Command : netstat
  
  
  
• Command : netstat -ie
• It is also similar to ifconfig.