Nettool is a tool to diagnose the network and services status. It provides a graphical user interface for a number of common network tools, such as ping, netstat, traceroute, port scan, lookup, finger, and whois.
The functionality is very basic, it is oriented to get the first insight of an potential issue and to bring this information to technical staff.
This is free and open source software.
Website: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-nettool
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Developer: Germán Poo Caamaño
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

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