Developer(s) Apple Computer Operating system | Stable release 1.9.1 (106) Type network software | |
Network Utility is an application included with macOS that provides a variety tools that can be used related to computer network information gathering and analysis.
Contents
Network Utility shows information about each of your network connections, including the Mac Address of the interface, the IP addresses assigned to it, its speed and status, a count of data packets sent and received, and a count of transmission errors and collisions.
Services
The available services or tools found in the Network Utility:
Actionable Items
Examples of what the Network Utility can help with:
Port scan information
Network Utility uses the tools supplied in the unix directories for most of its functions, however for the port scan it uses a unix executable in its resources folder, stroke, found at Network Utility.app/Contents/Resources/stroke.