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Network utilities (e.g. ping, ftp, telnet, …) in MobileTerminal on iPhone

10/08/2009 15:55 | iPhone | 7 replies | 3755 views | RSS

I have been searching like a madman why I didn’t have basic network commands (ping, netstat…) available in the MobileTerminal on my iPhone after I upgraded to 3.0.

Seems that there is a Cydia package you need to install. On previous iPhoneOS versions I believe the commands included in this package were installed alongside with the MobileTerminal, or maybe another package.

The name of the package is “network-cmds” – “inetutils” *, so you can imagine how I felt when I finally found it.

* thx trevorlc!

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  1. On 27 September 2009 at 12h27, buangsampah wrote

    how do you link the network-cmds with mobile terminal. cause I have downloaded both and when I tried to ping, mobile terminal told me that the ping command is not available. thx. Buang

  2. On 27 September 2009 at 13h35, Selder wrote

    Did you reboot your iPhone?

  3. On 7 October 2009 at 06h41, trevorlc wrote

    That does not have ping in it. Install a package from Cydia called Inetutils which has the coomand for ftp, inetd, ping, rlogin, telnet, tftp

  4. On 8 October 2009 at 23h06, Selder wrote

    I stand corrected, it is indeed “inetutils” :)

  5. On 13 October 2009 at 14h25, buangsampah wrote

    Thank you guys for the info.
    Now, it works after applying (installing) the inetutils (download from cydia).
    Now, I can “ping” (no nee to reboot the iphone).
    But, I can NOT use the “traceroute” command. It say “icmp socket: Operation Not Permitted”. Do I need to set permission or anything?
    Thx.
    Buang

  6. On 3 December 2009 at 02h48, art wrote

    Thank u very much for the info.

  7. On 16 May 2010 at 13h44, Techbart wrote

    I too am having issues using traceroute. I have installed inetutils and network-cmds from Cydia. However, any attempt to run a traceroute from Mobile Terminal results in several fails depending on user. For standard mobile user both with and without su, I see:

    “traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not premitted”

    If I try traceroute with root account, I see the following message:

    “traceroute: ifaddrlist: SIOCGIFADDR: pdp_ip0: Can’t assign requested address”

    My guess is that mobile terminal is defaulting to using the iPhone’s cell comms interface and ignoring wireless connectivity. Not a problem for most people I know, but as I don’t have network coverage (bills got on top of me), without an unlock I’m stuck behind wifi. Even so, it would be nice to have traceroute either automatically pick up an active connection, or allow the user to switch between interfaces. Er, just a guess here though:p