Interfaces

  • Get the list of all wireless networks reachable by the wlan0 interface: 

    1$ iwlist wlan0 scanning | grep ESSID

  • Get some information about open ports: 

    1$ netstat --taupen
2$ netstat --lapute

  • Watch network activity in real-time: 

    1$ watch -n 1 "lsof -i"

  • Reboot machine if the 192.168.0.254 host doesn’t reply to at least one ping after 15 attempts or 600 seconds: 

    1$ ping -c 15 -o -t 600 192.168.0.254 || shutdown -r now

Domain names

  • Get the IP address where a domain points to: 

    1$ host kevin.deldycke.com

  • Get different kind of DNS records of the example.com domain: 

    1$ dig example.com CNAME
2$ dig example.com MX

Content inspection

  • Save all images passing through eth0 : 

    1$ driftnet -i eth0 -a -d ./http-pics

Samba / CIFS

  • Mount a samba share: 

    1$ mkdir /mnt/freebox
2$ mount_smbfs -I 192.168.0.254 //Guest@/Disque\ 1/ /mnt/freebox