Environment:
WayPoint 3 software version 6.4 or later
Description:
The Network Troubleshooting and Verification tools are a suite of tools used to help configure the network settings on a WayPoint 3.
Additional Information:
To access the Network Troubleshooting and Verification tools, select Troubleshooting from the WayPoint’s main menu.
The next screen will show the MAC addresses, local IP and external IP addresses of both of the WayPoint’s WAN ports.
Press 1 to launch the Network Troubleshooting and Verification tools while keeping the WayPoint’s broadcast feature active.
Press 2 to disable the WayPoint’s broadcast feature and launch the Network Troubleshooting and Verification tools.
Upon selecting one of the above options, a Linux BASH prompt will be displayed. Enter info to see a list of network tests that can be run, including:
- Testing DNS configuration
- Testing NTP (Network Time Protocol) configuration
- Testing HTTPS connection
- Running a traceroute to dejero.com
Additionally, the following BASH commands are available to assist in troubleshooting:
- arping – send ARP REQUEST to a neighbour host
- chronyc – display status of NTP servers
- curl – tool to transfer data from or to a server
- delv – DNS lookup and validation utility
- dig – DNS lookup utility
- host – DNS lookup utility
- ifconfig – configure a network interface
- ip – show routing, devices
- iperf – perform network throughput tests
- mtr – network diagnostic tool
- nc – netcat – arbitrary TCP/UDP connections and listens
- nload – displays current network usage
- nslookup – query Internet name servers interactively
- openssl – OpenSSL command line tool
- ping – send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
- scp – secure copy
- sftp – secure file transfer program
- ssh – OpenSSH remote login client
- tcpdump – dump traffic on a network
- traceroute – print the route packets trace to network host
- wget – non-interactive network downloader
For more information on these commands, please refer to each command’s individual manual page at https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/.
Note that the BASH shell provided is read-only and any desired changes to the network configuration must be made via the WayPoint’s main menu.
Enter exit to return to the WayPoint’s main menu.