Net Tools For Development 1.0.1
1. Description
2. Configuration and installation instructions
3. Copyright and licensing information
4. Contacts and credits
5. Known bugs
6. Troubleshooting
7. Changelog
1. Description
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This application is a portable set of network applications mostly intended to be
used for network development and debugging.
The current release of this application contains the following tools:
- Simple network-oriented commands: ping, netstat, nslookup, traceroute
- A port scanner
- SSH/Telnet client with PuTTY (for Windows only) with special features such as
tab organisation, classification of PuTTY sessions, system menu and shortcuts,
releasing and embedding PuTTY windows and others
- A simple FTP client with a local file explorer
- An HTTP proxy that supports BASIC authentication, method filtering
- TCP and UDP tunnels
- Simple servers: Web (HTTP) server, FTP server, TFTP server and more generic
- TCP server
This application is currently available in French and English. It is possible to
switch the language (see Preferences).
2. Configuration and installation instructions
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2.1. Requirements
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You need to have a JRE 1.6 or higher installed on your system to run this tool.
Ideally, this JRE 1.6 must be the default JVM. If this is not the case you will
have to start the tool from a command line where JRE 1.6 is in the path.
2.2. Installation
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2.2.1. Fresh installation
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1. Download the version that corresponds to your OS.
2. Unzip the archive
3. Start nettools
Warning for Unix-like systems (Linux, OS X): you need to run the tool as root if
you want to start a server with a port less than 1024.
2.2.2. Upgrade
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Warning!! Tested only on Windows
1. Rename the parent folder of the old version (NetTools)
2. Unzip the new version
3. Copy the directory "workspace" of the old version to the new version
2.3. Configuration
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For Windows users: if you have PuTTY installed on your system, go to the
preferences and indicate the path to the PuTTY executable. Then you will have
instantly access to your sessions with the ability to organize them via a
dedicated view (tree button at the bottom left hand side of the window).
Hint: press the Ctrl key when starting a PuTTY session to open it as a
standalone (not embedded) application.
3. Copyright and licensing information
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This software has been released under the terms of the Apache License 2.0.
Please refer to the file LICENSE-2.0.txt for the complete license.
4. Contacts and credits
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This tool has been patiently developed by Sylvain BAUDOIN.
You can contact me at the following address: sbaudoin@users.sourceforge.net
For support, enhancement requests and documentation, please check out the
Sourceforge.net project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nettools4dev/
5. Known bugs
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* Language switching:
If you switch the language, some tabs (views) may keep on rendering the previous
translated name. Just click the tab to get the correct translation.
If you switch the language and restart, then go to the preferences again and set
another preference without touching the language, you may be prompted if you
want to restart the application because of the language switch. Just cancel the
operation. The bad thing is that you will certainly have to set again your
preference.
6. Troubleshooting
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* PuTTY windows are no longer embedded:
If the application no longer embeds new PuTTY session or cannot embed free PuTTY
windows, you must restart the application.
* When the tabs are resized sometimes the PuTTY content screws up:
This is an odd behavior of the PuTTY display. This does not prevent your telnet
session from working correctly. Just press Enter several times to get a nice
looking prompt.
7. Changelog
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1.0.1: first fix release (30/04/2012)
- Fix various FTP client issues such as incorrect rendering of the root folder
of remote servers
- Fix a bug that prevented the values remembered in the toolbars to be used
again at once after perspective switch
1.0.0: first release (16/04/2012)
