kwillia/net4utils repository overview

⁠net4utils

A bunch of network related utilies wrapped into a container.

useful for troubleshooting container networks.

⁠Build

this is a docker container, you can grab it from docker hub: `docker pull kwillia/net4utils

or build it yourself, after cloning the repo docker build -t somename ./

⁠Run -Docker

it's expected this is ran interactively. examples: docker run -it kwillia/net4utils bash

or

docker run -it kwillia/net4utils dig google.com

⁠Run -Kubernetes/K8s

a simple kubernetes pod yaml is included, to run wireshark you need to set the pod to priveledged mode.

⁠tools included:

• arp: dump and manipulate arp cache
• arping: send ARP REQUEST to a neighbour host
• arpwatch: keep track of ethernet/ip address pairings
• bmon: bandwidth monitoring and debugging tool - capture network stats
• curl: command line data tranfer | url retriever
• dig: dns server query tool
• ethtool: query or control network driver and hardware settings
• hping3: command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer
• ifconfig: depricated interface configuration tool
• iftop: top, but for network interfaces
• ip: part of the iproute2 suite
• ipcalc: quick ip subnet calc
• iperf3: network performance testing`
• mtr: my traceroute - combines ping and traceroute
• nc: netcat!
• nload: bandwidth monitor
• nslookup: dns tools
• ping: ping
• ssh: ssh
• telnet: telnet
• traceroute: print the route packets trace to network host
• tshark: terminal wireshark
• wget: similar to curl, cli based url data transfer tool