Docker Network Tools

A Docker image with various network tools pre-installed.

Usage

To launch a Bash session in your terminal:

docker run --rm -it jonlabelle/network-tools

To launch a Bash session in your terminal on arm64:

docker run --rm -it --platform linux/arm64 jonlabelle/network-tools

To run a command directly and exit when finished (nmap in this case):

docker run --rm -it jonlabelle/network-tools nmap -v 10.0.10.0/24

NOTE: To pull from GitHub Container Registry, instead of Docker Hub, replace jonlabelle/network-tools with ghcr.io/jonlabelle/network-tools.

Included Tools

Bandwidth

Tool	Description	Resources
nload	Console network traffic and bandwidth monitor.	examples
iperf	A tool to measure IP bandwidth using UDP or TCP.	examples
speedtest-cli	CLI for testing bandwidth using speedtest.net.	usage

DNS

Tool	Description	Resources
arpaname	Translate IP addresses to the corresponding ARPA names.	-
ddns-confgen	DDNS key generation tool.	-
delv	DNS lookup and validation utility.	-
dig	DNS lookup utility.	-
dnsdomainname	Show the system's DNS domain name.	-
dnstap-read	Print dnstap data in human-readable form.	-
domainname	Show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name.	-
drill	DNS(SEC) query tool ala dig.	examples
host	DNS lookup utility.	-
hostname	Show or set the system's host name.	-
libidn	Encode/decode library for internationalized domain names.	examples
mdig	DNS pipelined lookup utility.	-
named-checkzone	Zone file validity checking or converting tool.	-
named-compilezone	Zone file validity checking or converting tool.	-
named-journalprint	Print zone journal in human-readable form.	-
named-rrchecker	Syntax checker for individual DNS resource records.	-
nisdomainname	Show or set system's NIS/YP domain name.	-
nslookup	Query Internet name servers interactively.	-
nsupdate	Dynamic DNS update utility.	-
rndc-confgen	RNDC key generation tool.	-
tsig-keygen	DDNS key generation tool.	-
ypdomainname	Show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name.	-

HTTP/Web

Tool	Description	Resources
ab	Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool.	examples
curl	Tool for transferring data with URLs.	examples
grpcurl	Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers	examples
jq	A lightweight and flexible command line JSON processor.	examples
oath-toolkit-oathtool	Generate and validate one-time passwords.	man page
wget	A network utility to retrieve files from the web.	examples

IP Routing

Tool	Description	Resources
bridge	Show / manipulate bridge addresses and devices.	-
ctstat	Unified linux network statistics.	-
genl	Generic netlink utility frontend.	-
ifcfg	Simplistic script which replaces ifconfig IP management.	-
ifstat	Handy utility to read network interface statistics.	-
lnstat	Unified linux network statistics.	-
nstat	Network statistics tools.	-
route	Show / manipulate the IP routing table.	-
routef	Flush network routes.	-
routel	List routes with pretty output format.	-
rtacct	Monitor kernel SNMP counters and network interface statistics.	-
rtmon	Listens to and monitors RTnetlink.	-
rtpr	Replace backslashes with newlines.	-
rtstat	Unified linux network statistics.	-

IP and MAC address

Tool	Description	Resources
ifconfig	Configure a network interface.	examples
ipcalc	Network IP calculator.	man page
ipmaddr	Adds, deletes, and displays multicast addresses.	-
macchanger	View and manipulate the MAC address of network interfaces.	man page
nameif	Name network interfaces based on MAC addresses.	-
nftables	Netfilter tables userspace tools	man page
plipconfig	Fine tune PLIP device parameters.	-
rarp	Manipulate the system RARP table.	-
slattach	Attach a network interface to a serial line.	-

Packet analysis

Tool	Description	Resources
fping	Search for network packets on an interface.	examples
hping3	A ping-like TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer.	examples
ngrep	Search for network packets on an interface.	examples
tcpdump	Dump and analyze traffic on a network.	examples
tshark	Network protocol analyzer (console version).	man page

Scanning and discovery

Tool	Description	Resources
arp-scan	Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) packet scanner.	examples
arp	Manipulate the system ARP cache.	-
arping	Send ARP REQUEST to a neighbor host.	-
clockdiff	Measure clock difference between hosts.	-
gping	Ping, but with a graph.	usage
masscan	Internet-scale port scanner.	examples
netstat	Displays network-related information.	examples
ninfod	Respond to IPv6 Node Information Queries.	-
nmap	Network Security Scanner.	examples
nping	Network packet generation tool/ping utility.	examples
ping6	Send IP6 ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts.	-
ping	Send IP4 ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts.	-
rarpd	Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) daemon.	-
rdisc	Network router discovery daemon.	-

Transmission and communication

Tool	Description	Resources
iptunnel	Creates, deletes, and displays configured tunnels.	-
kcat	Non-JVM Apache Kafka producer and consumer.	examples
netcat	The TCP/IP swiss army knife (OpenBSD variant).	examples
openssl	Toolkit for Transport Layer Security (TLS).	examples
socat	Multipurpose relay for binary protocols.	examples
ssh	OpenBSD's SSH client.	examples
telnet	Telnet client from GNU network utilities	examples
tftpd	IPv4 Trivial File Transfer Protocol client.	-

Tracing

Tool	Description	Resources
mtr	Full screen ncurses traceroute tool.	examples
tcptraceroute	Display route path using TCP probes.	examples
tracepath6	Traces path to a IP6 network host discovering MTU along this path.	-
tracepath	Traces path to a IP4 network host discovering MTU along this path.	-
traceroute6	Print the route packets trace to IP6 network host.	-

Additional tools

Tool	Description	Resources
envsubst	Perform variable substitutions on input.	examples
find	Search for files in a directory hierarchy.	examples
git	Distribute d version control system.	examples
free	Report the amount of free and used memory in the system.	-
kill	Send a signal to a process based on PID.	-
locate	List files in databases that match a pattern.	man page
pgrep	List processes based on name or other attributes.	-
pkill	Send a signal to a process based on name or other attributes.	-
pmap	Report memory map of a process.	-
ps	Report information of processes.	-
pwdx	Report current directory of a process.	-
skill	Obsolete version of pgrep/pkill.	-
slabtop	Display kernel slab cache information in real time.	-
snice	Renice a process.	-
sysctl	Read or Write kernel parameters at run-time.	-
tload	Graphical representation of system load average.	-
top	Dynamic real-time view of running processes.	-
updatedb	Update a file name database.	man page
uptime	Display how long the system has been running.	-
vmstat	Report virtual memory statistics.	-
w	Report logged in users and what they are doing.	-
watch	Execute a program periodically, showing output full-screen.	-
xargs	Build and execute command lines from standard input.	examples

Related

• jonlabelle/docker-nmap. Minimal Docker image with Nmap Network Security Scanner pre-installed.

License

MIT License