Windows Networking Tools

Windows has a route.exe command that describes the current routing table. Under W2k (and ME?) there is a -p persistent option that keeps settings over reboots. Cool.
ping and IP address on the LAN, then run "arp -a", the MAC address of the IP that you just pinged will be there (along with all the other MACs that have been collected).
TCPing will ping with TCP packets (rather than ping and it's ICMP packets). Useful if you want to know if problems exist in TCP level or not. http://www.elifulkerson.com/projects/tcping.php - more options at serverfault: http://serverfault.com/questions/14376/ping-alternative-for-tcp - TCPing has an option to write a timestamp on each line. Excellent for logging over time! This uses TCP not ICMP - i.e. if a router has remote "ping" enabled... that ain't enough. VNC or HTTP or other live port required.
- e.g. to "ping" VNC
  tcping -t -d -b 1 192.168.1.101 5900
fping
- Gone: http://www.kwakkelflap.com/fping.html
- Uses ICMP. Has timestamp option. Free as in beer.
- "mirrored" on blog: http://blog.perceptus.ca/2017/11/10/fping-windows-download-the-last-version/
- -R seems to break -D (datestamp)
- Below, that's a lower case L.
- fping 10.0.0.56 -D -T -l -c -L F:\temp\log.txt
Sourceforge has a number of graphical ping loggers - e.g. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gping/files/latest/download
Enable ping response Windows
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 enable

Tags: networking, network, route, routing, router