Fing-Network Tools (for Android)

Fing is not only a free but feature-packed networking utility app for Android and iOS devices: it's a portmanteau term combining Find and Ping, two of the app's capabilities.

Fing is a network discovery tool that will find devices connected to your network and offers several networking utilities such as Ping, DNS Lookup and traceroute?all which can be used for troubleshooting and analyzing connection issues or to ferret out anything connected to your network that shouldn't be. It's a free app, but, just because it's free, the creators of the app aren't stingy with the feature set.

Install and Download
I downloaded Fing from the Google Play store and the installation took seconds on my Droid 3. With the Droid 3connected to my network, when I first launched Fing, the app started a network discovery session. Now, I admittedly, don?t have more ten nodes connected to my network, but the discovery was speedy from my phone.

Note that Fing is not just for mobile devices: It can also be installed as a desktop command line tool on Windows, OS X, and Linux.

Usage and Features
Fing has a sharp, well-laid out interface, although the font is small and it can be hard?at least it was on my Droid 3?to exactly touch the right spot on screen to launch some settings. You might have better luck using it on a tablet or iPad.

After Fing finishes a scan, devices connected to the network are displayed. You can click on each individual device and get detailed information such as that device's IP and MAC addresses, the device's vendor, and NetBIOS information. I did notice that on some devices, the app will pick up on a vendor that manufactured a component in the device rather than the vendor of the specific piece of equipment as a whole. For example, I have a Qnap TS-465 NAS ?on the network. Fing lists the NAS's vendor as ICP Electronics, rather than QNAP, because ICP Electronics apparently makes some component in the NAS.

Still, with a little detective work, you can narrow down which app in your network to which the the vendor information refers.

One Flaw, Many Highpoints
A useful feature is the ability to display services running on a discovered device. However, the feature didn't work for me, even when I scanned against a server that has running services installed and no firewall running to block any request made by Fing.

Other utilities are available to perform against discovered devices such as Wake on LAN. As mentioned you can ping network nodes from Fing, but I didn?t find a way to customize the ping, the way you can when you run ping from a desktop command line with parameters. Even the Enterprise Ping app ?allows you to at least set packet size, although it offers fewer capabilities than Fing.

Ping in Fing will display average ping time, percent of packet loss, and other information you can use to troubleshoot connection issues.

If you scan multiple networks, you can save and manage those networks in Fing. Discovered nodes can be given custom names and have additional notes you create for them attached to their record in Fing.

You aren't limited to scanning within a private network. You can perform a DNS lookup (reverse ordirect) on external or internal hosts or IP addresses and can scan external networks as long as you have an Internet connection.

A useful ability is the limiting of the number of nodes discovered during a scan. If you are running Ping against a network with lots of connected nodes, you may not want to discover all nodes. You can opt to run a scan against a specific host name or IP address, or you can limit the amount of nodes discovered in the settings by selecting for example, "/32" which will only discover one node connected to? a network.

Advanced users can edit the types of services and ports used in a scan. Discovered information can be saved to a CSV, HTML, or XML file. You can also touch details on-screen about a specific network node and copy that information to the clipboard. That data can be backed up and restored to an SD card, all through the Fing app.

Ping and More with Fing
For a free app, Fing gives lots of useful tools especially for using on a mobile device. It's a handy tool to add to your network troubleshooting toolbox and easily earns a four-star rating for networking utilities.

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