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Internet and network Commands

ftp Used to establish a connection with a specified host using the File Transfer Protocol.
ifconfig Displays/establishes information about the network interfaces.
ifup Bring up network interface.
ifdown Bring up network interface.
iwconfig Displays/establishes information about the wireless interfaces.
ip Used to manage IP network interfaces.
links Launches the text-based web browser (links).
lynx Launches the text-based web browser (lynx).
netstat Displays information about the Linux networking subsystem.
nslookup Looks up the numerical IP address of the specified host.
ping Sends a packet to a designated address and waits for a response.
route Configure IP4 routing
showmount Displays the Network Filesystem mounts available.
smbclient Launches an interactive samba utility which resembles ftp.
smbmount Mounts a remote Samba service at the specified mount point.
smbstatus Displays the current Samba connections.
smbumount Unmounts the specified Samba mount point.
telnet Opens a terminal window on the remote host and starts an interactive session.
traceroute Prints the route that packets take to network host
wvdial Initiates a PPP dial-up connection.
wvdialconf Probes for a modem connected to your system.

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