Bash Networking
In Chapter 5, you learned how to use functions to make your code more robust. This chapter will build on previous chapters by applying what you’ve learned to real-world pentesting tasks related to networking and network exploitation.
This chapter dives into the world of Bash networking. We’ll take a tour of commands and scripts that let you configure, troubleshoot, and exploit networking in a Unix/Linux environment. You’ll learn not just how to access network configuration details and interact with network components but also how to use Bash scripting to exploit vulnerable network services. We’ll start with the basics, then gradually step into more advanced concepts, all the way to network traffic analysis.
By the end of this chapter, you’ll be able to identify network configuration details, understand network diagnostics in Bash, enumerate network services in Bash, automate network scanning tools and chain attack sequences,...
