Freeware Tools: Essential NetTools 4.4

Essential NetTools is a set of network scanning, security, and administrator tools useful in diagnosing networks and monitoring your computer's network connections. NetStat: displays a list of your computer's inbound and outbound network connections, including the information on open TCP and UDP ports, IP address, and connection states. NBScan: a powerful and fast NetBIOS scanner. NBScan can scan a network within a given range of IP addresses and list computers offering NetBIOS resource-sharing service, as well as their name tables and MAC addresses and more.

Essential NetTools brings together a set of powerful tools that you can use to monitor and diagnose network connections. It provides all the utilities necessary for managing your network and ensuring its security.

All the available tools are displayed in a customizable sidebar, so you have easy access to each of them. The first one, NetStat, displays all the network connections, their state, the local and the remote IP addresses and the corresponding ports. Opening ports to applications you own and setting connection alerts are just some of the options that you can use.

The software includes an advanced TCP port scanner, as well as traceroute and ping tools that can help you solve connectivity problems. The process monitoring module enables you to manage the running processes and view CPU usage statistics.

Essential NetTools also features a NetBIOS auditing tool for checking the network security, a SNMP device scanner and module for verifying whether an IP address is included in any blacklist. Another great utility for any network administrator is RawSocket, which you can use to set TCP and UDP connections in order to test network services.

NetBIOS scanner can easily replace the functionality of the Windows Nbtstat command, allowing you to display NetBIOS information much easier, without using the command console.

When it comes to network administration, with Essential NetTools you can do it all: manage your wireless and wired network connections, edit system files (services, protocols, networks, etc.), manage shared resources, view the corresponding hostname for a given IP address or even check the validity of an e-mail address.

In addition to this, the program can generate reports in various formats. Furthermore, it comes with a system information utility that displays data regarding hardware and software components.

Whether you are looking for a ping tool, a port scanner or a process manager, Essential NetTools has it all. Providing a complete collection of network utilities, it is the ideal software solution for any network administrator.