Common Network Commands

ifconfig iwconfig (wireless)

ifconfig is becoming deprecated the new and improved version is ip ip n (arp table) ip r (routing table)

arp associate IP addresses with MAC addresses After I pinged the kali box using my macos machine, my macos machine's IP is now listed when we used arp -a

netstat shows you active connections running on your machine

Comes in handy to see if a machine is talking to somebody else

route this command prints out your routing table