Alternative to windows network commands in manjaro?

[linub]

Hello
i started following a network course which is learned on windows.
they use commands like:
netstat,ipconfig,nslookup,ping,tracert,arp etc.
i tried using those in konsole but they don’t run.
i looked for their counterparts in Linux like ifconfig,but it doesn’t run either.
in this Arch page,they provide a few replacements, but when running those,the output is obviously very different than what i see in windows:(so not an option to be able to follow and execute the course instructions)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration#net-tools

what are my options?

i saw this answer by @Mirdarthos involving installing “zsh”.

Alternativas pro Manjaro do comando "Command Not Found"

Hi @madeiraantonio97, Sorry I’m not replying in Portugese, I used google translate to translate your question. I believe the functionality you’re looking for comes with the zsh shell, that needs to be installed manually, in the form of the Manjaro zsh plugin. It also has plugins for auto completion (zsh-autosuggestions) and syntax highlighting (zsh-syntax-highlighting) among many, many others. To install zsh sudo pacman -Syu zsh And then check out Oh-my-Zsh and also get the manjaro-zsh-conf…

or am i better just opening a windows VM and work from there?

[Mirdarthos]

Installing ZSH will do absolutely 0 good in this case.

@linub

or am i better just opening a windows VM and work from there?

I was going to suggget this exact thing!

[linub]

@Mirdarthos

Installing ZSH will do absolutely 0 good in this case.

i might have messed my Portuguese;
i saw “replacement for manjaro…” in the title,and net-tools in the cli, so i assumed that’s what we’re talking about…

i see here they provide a solution?

Windows CMD for Linux?

but i don’t want to install wine and also have $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Windows/System32/cmd.exe on my pc.

i guess I’ll use a VM then.

[tuxmanjarino]

@linub

what are my options?

to take a Linux course.

[Mirdarthos]

@linub

i guess I’ll use a VM then.

IMHO this would be the best option, as I highly doubt the output of those commands would even be the same. Or if they are, reliable. And in my opinion, the VM is the ‘cleaner’ option, anyway.

[linub]

Thank you.

[Mirdarthos]

[linux-aarhus]

No matter the system - the network diagnosing and troubleshooting - is identical.

The tools may have different names and their output formatted differently or be more or less verbose - but essentially - learning the principles of networking and troubleshooting are the same.

$ nslookup
$ drill
$ ss
$ ping
$ host
$ ip

If you have NetworkManager installed then

$ nmcli

Other tools

$ sudo pacman -Syu bind arp-scan traceroute whois

gives you

$ dig
$ traceroute
$ whois
$ arp-scan

[Mirdarthos]

While they can and do do the same, they are not the same and AFAIK isn’t the same or with the same output as their windows counterparts.