The IP Tools application is a powerful suite of network utilities for network analysis and tuning. With this app, we can detect any network problem on a computer, and increase its performance. It is an essential application for network administrators.
IP Tools combines the most popular network utilities normally found in Windows or Linux. We have a simple and intuitive interface, so you can receive complete information from the network in seconds. In this way we can find out the internal or external IP, SSID, gateway, netmask and other basic information.
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The first time we start IP Tools we will get a screen like the one you can see below.
Under the icon of three horizontal bars we have the options. If we touch on it we will see the available tools. Just below comes 213.97.XX which refers to our current public IP. Then we have the share button that will allow us to copy that information to the clipboard, send it by e-mail, spread it on WhatsApp and more. Here are the options it allows.
To the right of sharing we have the refresh button to update the information and we can check if changes have occurred. Now we are going to click on options and we will get a list of tools that we can use.
IP information refers to the first screen we have talked about before. In a yellow box we have DNS lookup , IP Calculator and IP & Host converter that I only mention because they are more complex tools. Just know that you can use them if you need them. Let’s start with Whois, which is a tool that indicates to whom an IP belongs.
For example, if we put 8.8.8.8 it will reply that it is a Google DNS server. Now it is the turn of Ping that will measure in ms the response time we have from an IP.
In this case I have used the IP of my router that has responded to ping in less than two milliseconds. Next up is Traceroute which is a diagnostic console that allows you to keep track of packets coming from a host (network point). A statistic of the RTT or network latency of these packets is also obtained, which is an estimate of the distance at which the ends of the communication are.
For this occasion I have chosen a PC from my local network with IP 192.168.1.2. As you can see, a single component appears because I have done it locally. However, if we were to point to a public IP, it would trace the route of the servers and computers through which this information is passing.
The next tool is Port Scan as you can see in the following screenshot.
Here what I have done is put the IP of my router 192.168.1.1 and it has shown me all the ports that I have available. Now we go to WiFi Explorer and this is what it shows us.
As you can see the details of the closest Wi-Fi networks and to which we are connected. It offers us the SSID, BSSID, the signal as a percentage (the higher the better coverage we have from that point), the channel, the encryption it uses and more.
The last tool we are going to talk about is LAN Scanner. For example, if we put the gateway of our router it will show the devices connected to the local network.
Here you can see connected at that moment the PC, the router and my LG smartphone that is currently using IP Tools. Collect the IP, MAC address, and device manufacturer.
