Network Toolset

Network Toolset is a collection of network utilities that come in handy to any administrator or enthusiastic user looking to get information on LAN computers.

Installation is not a prerequisite, which makes Network Toolset portable. You can drop the executable file anywhere on the hard drive and click it to run.

It is also possible to save a copy of Network Toolset to a USB flash disk or similar storage unit, to be able to run it on any machine with minimum effort and no previous installers.

What's more, the Windows registry does not receive new entries, and no extra files are created on the disk, leaving it clean after program removal.

The interface is not particularly attractive but easy to navigate. You can write an IP address or host name to ping, trace it or look it up, as well as to look up whois info. You can specify the maximum number of hops, bytes and pings, along with the timeout. Results can be copied to the Clipboard or saved to a plain text document for closer inspection.

All used hosts are recorded to a history list, and Network Toolset provides a manager for their entries. It can display network interface details, add static IPs and MAC address entries to ARP, fetch the ARP table and Internet IP addresses, as well as show the ports database and provide a search function for it. A network scanner is also available, along with network statistics. You can send a Wake-on-LAN signal to computers, and enable internal TCP/IP IPC server.

Network Toolset does not put a strain on computer resources, as it uses low CPU and RAM. It has a good response time and finishes a scan job in reasonable time. We have not come across any issues in our testing, since the tool did not hang, crash or pop up error dialogs. Network Toolset serves its purpose.