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Joe's Network Utility (Ping, Traceroute, DNS, Wake on LAN, WiFi, Network Info)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
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Version 1.65 which establishes OS 3.0 compatibility has been send to Apple for review.

The network utility is the All-In-One tool to help you troubleshooting and analyzing your network. Each tool simply implements the best solution on the iPhone/iPod touch. It actually includes

-Ping
* including Ping ranges e.g. 192.168.1.1-254 (new in 1.1)
* Ping groups (new in 1.5)
-Fast Traceroute (new in 1.3)
* including automatic reverse IP DNS lookup of IP addresses
-DNS lookup
* including reverse DNS lookup (new in 1.2)
-Wake on LAN
-WiFi (new in 1.4) find hotspots and WiFi networks near you (works under OS 2.x only)
-Network Info/Device Info Section (new in 1.2)
-Settings section now also inside the tool (new in 1.6)

Features:
-all functions are being implemented the iphone/ipod touch GUI way.
-list with your favorites separated for each each tool
-usage of your favorites between tools (as long as possible for required functionality)
-grouped history of Pings, Traces, lookup, etc.
-definition of number of packets to send
-timeout definition for each ping, ping answers being received later than the timeout are marked in red
-trace route timeout values and maximum path length adjustable
-if nothing is entered in the input section a so called super favorite is being used
-usage of result entries as inputs for different sections (new in 1.6) just tap a result.
-eMail results of any section (new in 1.3) just tap a result.
-access application settings (such as timout, repeat count etc) now from witin the application (new in 1.6)
-shows and tracks Wifi networks in reach with detailed information
-works via Wifi, 3G, EDGE, GPRS, VPN
-arrange tool order and tool to run at startup to your own preference.

Ping determines the availability of a host and packet round trip times.
*Ping ranges allow you to ping up to a „class c“ address range (1-254) to determing responding hosts within the range. (e.g. 10.0.0.1-254 or 192.168.1.15-31)
*Ping groups allow you to create groups of hosts. E.g. create your WAN, LAN, printer or server ping groups. Host can be selected from the Ping favorite section and associated to a group. If selected and started all selected hosts are being fast pinged to determine their rechability.

Trace route determines the path to a destionation (if not prohibited by firewalls). Is is being impelemented for very fast path determination.

(WoL) Wake-on-LAN allows you to wake up a device via your network, the internet or VPN by sending a magic packet to wake it up. Please note that the remote device must be configured to listen to those kind of packets for being able to be woken up.

For WoL to work you should always configure the LAN Broadcast address instead of host address to prevent problems with timeouted arp caches and thus not possible packet delivery within the target network. (e.g. for Host 192.168.1.42 network mask 255.255.255.0 you should use 192.168.42.255 as WoL host address)

The Wake on LAN feature has been successfully tested with Airport Express, Airport Extreme, TimeCapsule and quite some other vendor's devices such as Cisco, Draytek, AVM routers. In bridged, routed LANs as well as over the Internet through IPSEC VPN connections.

Info section includes
-about / version information
-device status ( Online Connection type & status (e.g. WWAN/WiFi/IPSEC/Tunnel)
-device's IP address settings
-DNS server (new in 1.21)
-Default gateway (new in 1.21)
-device's interfaces
-currently connected WiFi network

Please visit the mobilutions web page for a more detailed description.

What's new

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
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In this release WiFi functionality has been REMOVED.


This version contains the following bug fixes and enhancements.

- favorite entries could not be deleted (fixed)
- under certain conditions ping groups stopped pinging to early (fixed)
- new error message when trying to use ping groups as trace or dns destination

- new general setting: the new favorite selector defines which favorite section is initially being displayed when favorite section is opened. Possible choices.
- Ping
- Dns
- WoL
- Ping Group
- Adaptive
- Adaptive 2

Adaptive: displays favorites depending from the tool it has been opened
ping -> ping favorites
trace -> ping favorites
DNS -> dns favorites
Wol -> wol favorites

Adaptive 2: Almost the same as automatic but instead of ping favorites
for the ping tool ping groups are being selected

additional bug fixes

- due to a bug even if the WOL port had been changed the packet was still being send out at the default port 9. This has been fixed.

- after a WOL super favorite was being used and the default port was changed afterwards within the settings area within the application any subsequent super wol favorite being send still used the old port as long as the application was not being restarted. This issue has been fixed.

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Last changed:

May 18, 2009

Category:

Utilities

Developer:

Mobilutions

Version:

1.64

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Size:

0.6 MB

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