The commands for networking with Kali OS is
ifconfig; route -n; cat /etc/resolv.conf; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/hosts
Where,
- ifconfig:
Displays various bits of information about the NIC (e.g. IP addresses, subnet, MAC address etc).
Note: ifconfig -a, will display information about ALL NICs
root@kali:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0b:29:9c:c9:b3
inet addr:172.108.41.233 Bcast:172.108.41.2355 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:ff9b:c9a3/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:292216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:135628 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:431730275 (411.7 MiB) TX bytes:7398306 (7.0 MiB)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0x2000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1648 (1.6 KiB) TX bytes:1648 (1.6 KiB)
root@kali:~#
You can also alter the state of the NIC by placing it in either 'down' or 'up' state, which disables or enables the NIC
root@kali ~$ ifconfig eth0 down root@kali ~$ ping -c 1 google.com ping: unknown host google.com root@kali ~$ ifconfig eth0 up root@kali ~$ ping -c 1 google.com PING google.com (62.252.173.153) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from m409-mp1-cvx1c.lan.ntl.com (62.252.173.153): icmp_req=1 ttl=128 time=18.0 ms --- google.com ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 18.061/18.061/18.061/0.000 ms root@kali ~$
- route -n
Displays the routing table i.e., gateways information.
root@kali:~# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 0.0.0.0 172.108.41.23 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 root@kali:~#
- cat /etc/resolv.conf
Displays the DNS information
root@kali:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf # Generated by NetworkManager domain localdomain search localdomain nameserver 172.108.41.23 root@kali:~#
- cat /etc/network/interfaces
Displays the network interface configuration
Note: eth0 is set up to use DHCP.
root@kali:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback root@kali:~#
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
root@kali:~#
- cat /etc/hosts
Static values for hostname lookups
Note: Editing these values, will NOT change your hostname (for that look into hostname & /etc/hostname).
root@kali:~# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 kali-offsec # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters root@kali:~#
