Netstat Stuff

Stats on local net usage within domain.

iftop -p -n

whois domain.com

Info on domain, whether it's taken, et c.:

dig domain.com

ifconfig

Versatile wifi tool:

nmcli

Examples

You want to connect to the internet.

sudo iwconfig

Get knowledge of wireless state. The output might be:

wlp3s0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"Gandalf WajFaj"

Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 10:05:01:90:AC:1A

Bit Rate=144.4 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm

Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off

Encryption key:off

      `Power Management:on`

      `Link Quality=64/70  Signal level=-46 dBm`

      `Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag`

      `Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:363   Missed beacon`

This tells you that your ESSID is 'Gandalf WajFaj', and the access point name is 10:05:......

nmcli radio

You get an overview of your radio devices.  You're told that eth0 deals with your ethernet and wlan0 deals with wifi.  wlan0 is a file which represents your wifi device.

nmcli wlan0 wifi rescan

nmcli device wifi list

Now to connect.

nmcli device wifi connect [SSID] [your password] [wifi password]

Alternatively, you can use

nmcli -ask device wifi connect [SSID]

And it'll ask for your password, so you're not typing it in in full view.

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