These are tools that are useful for managing and troubleshooting AppleTalk networks. No Network administrator should leave home without these. These are all run from the MacOS.

- TCP and UDP Ports Used By Apple Software

Shareware/Freeware:

AppleTalk Tools for MacOS:
• Trawl - AppleTalk sniffer. Build graphical pictures of your AppleTalk LAN & WAN. Find out what AppleTalk network-numbers belong to what devices.

• MacPing - Ping tool, for pinging AppleTalk & IP nodes. Other Ping tools can't ping AppleTalk nodes. This one does.

• OTTool - Small utility that displays a Mac's AppleTalk & IP configuration parameters.

• LanSatellite - Network monitoring & mapping software for AppleTalk networks.

• UAR - AppleTalk router. Install on a Macintosh with 2 or more Ethernet cards connected to 2 or more subnets, and route AppleTalk across it.

TCP/IP Tools for MacOS:

• WhatRoute - Ping/Traceroute/DNS query utility plus Telnet-Server for MacOS. Useful for pinging, tracerouting and issuing DNS queries from a Mac. Telnet-Server is used for telnetting to the Mac's IP address to issue the same commands via command-line prompt across the network. The Telnet-Server does not give you access to any MacOS executables.

• NCSA Telnet - Telnet client & FTP-Server for the MacOS. Allows you to telnet from the Mac, and set up the Mac as an FTP-Server.

• Fetch - FTP-client for MacOS.

• Netpresenz - FTP server for the Mac on steroids.

• TFTP Daemon - TFTP server for MacOS. Useful for storing your router configurations, and net-booting your router from.

• Daemon - Finger/Whois/Ident/NTP/Daytime daemon for MacOS. Just like the Unix equivalent.

• ZTerm - Terminal Emulator for MacOS. Use for communicating to devices connected to a Mac's serial port, like modems, routers, ISDN TAs, etc.

Commercial Software:

• InterPoll - AppleTalk sniffer, developed by Apple. Build graphical pictures of your AppleTalk LAN & WAN. Map AppleTalk network numbers to devices.

• EtherPeek - Full-featured EtherTalk sniffer. EtherTalk = AppleTalk over Ethernet.

• Timbuktu Pro - Remote-Control your Macs across IP LAN/WAN.