Network Troubleshooting in Terminal on Mac OS X

I realize I could use the Network Utility to do most of what typical troubleshooting does but I am more familar with the command prompt. When I use Windows I run my ping, tracert, nslookup, nbtstat, netstat and ipconfig.

I would like to know the common commands I would use on my lovely mac for the same functionality and then some.

So in short, compare the Apple Mac OS X Network Utility and Windows command prompt to what I can do in the terminal to match or beat what the others offer (which I know it can).

Okay, tall order but I believe I can get this started.

Network Utility - Info

Mac OS X: $ifconfig

Network Utility - NetStat: $netstat

Display routing table information: $netstat -r

Display comprehensive network statistics for each protocol: $netstat -s

Display multicast information: $netstat -g

Display the state of all current socket connections: $netstat -ta

Network Utility - Appletalk:

Network Utility - Ping: $ping or $nmap -sP -T Insane 192.168.1.0/24 (for an entire range)

Network Utility - Lookup: $nslookup

> server name server delivering the response

> set type=mx mx will lookup all mail records

> microsoft.com machine being looked up

Truthfully dig is a better command to use here instead of nslookup

Network Utility - Traceroute: $traceroute

Network Utility - Whois: $whois bbc.co.uk -h whois.nic.uk

bbc.co.uk is who we are trying to find out about

whois.nic.uk is the whois server we are using.

Network Utility - Finger: $finger dennis or $finger mywiseguys@gmail.com

Network Utility - Port Scan: $stroke host start_port end_port or $netstat -a or $nmap -Up 143 166.66.0.0/16 166.67.0.0/16