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Command Line Basics: Network Enumeration

In this lab, you’ll practice using command line tools to query systems for network information. When you’re finished, you’ll have the necessary skills and knowledge of how to query and interpret command line tool results to identify how networks interconnect together systems.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 04, 2025
Duration
1h 30m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Getting Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Linux Network Enumeration

    In this challenge, you will use a Linux machine within your corporate network. On this machine, you’ll learn basic commands for gathering information about its network configuration using the ip command, the connections that it currently has using the netstat command, its ability to query for naming lookup information using the dig command, its ability to remotely connect via Secure Shell using the ssh command, and its ability to initiate data transfers using the curl command, all from the command line.

  3. Challenge

    Windows Network Enumeration

    In this challenge, you will use a Windows machine within your corporate network. On this machine, you’ll learn basic commands for gathering information about its network configuration, the connections that it currently has, and its ability to query for naming lookup information, all from the command line.

  4. Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

About the author

Sean Wilkins is an accomplished networking consultant and writer for infoDispersion (www.infodispersion.com) who has been in the IT field for over 20 years working with several large enterprises.

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