WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.200 when it comes to diagnosing networking problems say you're an I.T person you're 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:12.120 just at your house whatever there are lots of tools on the market except so 00:00:09.540 --> 00:00:17.160 many of them cost a thousand dollars or five thousand dollars or ten thousand 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:21.000 dollars this one isn't specifically designed to help with Hardware problems 00:00:19.140 --> 00:00:25.800 but rather I guess you call it software problems configuration problems and also 00:00:23.580 --> 00:00:29.760 to make configuring your network faster these are the net tool i o Pro 2 and I 00:00:28.680 --> 00:00:36.960 think this one's called the light it's called the light I think it's the light basically it's a little dongle I guess 00:00:34.260 --> 00:00:40.860 since we get in here let's open this one ah 00:00:39.120 --> 00:00:45.719 what is this oh this is the actual thing beautiful 00:00:42.440 --> 00:00:48.840 there's one that's the light oh the 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:50.640 green is nice look at that 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:55.860 we've got a little quick start guide charger patch cable stickers I'll be 00:00:54.480 --> 00:01:01.620 sure to find somewhere to stick that on crooked I think the other one is going to be the same this one I opened already 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:05.100 is the light I like the green though I have the pro one here I've been using it 00:01:03.059 --> 00:01:10.880 for a few days this looks way cooler color wise why is it the cheaper 00:01:07.500 --> 00:01:10.880 crappier one that looks cooler 00:01:11.060 --> 00:01:18.900 color matched cables that's cute wow 00:01:15.540 --> 00:01:19.740 we got matched stickers oh that makes 00:01:18.900 --> 00:01:22.820 sense wonderful noise 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:29.280 it's gonna be a type c to a cable plugs in on the bottom there 00:01:27.360 --> 00:01:33.180 just like that to charge these things do have a battery in it which is very 00:01:30.780 --> 00:01:37.439 helpful you don't have to carry this thing around and ah is there a plug 00:01:35.340 --> 00:01:41.579 there that would make this a very stupid tool 2500 milliamp hour battery in each 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:47.220 of them I played around with it for about a day the pro version and I maybe 00:01:44.520 --> 00:01:51.360 went down like 30 battery life so on the bottom of each of them you have a port 00:01:48.479 --> 00:01:55.079 for charging and then a port for USB connectivity I'm not sure what other 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:59.939 stuff you can do but you can at the very least do pcap capture to a USB stick 00:01:57.960 --> 00:02:04.740 which is pretty helpful on the top is the Ethernet Jack that's going to plug 00:02:02.220 --> 00:02:08.700 into a network switch or I guess a wall jack whatever you're trying to diagnose 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:12.660 or get information from yeah aside from that it's just the little LEDs on the 00:02:10.619 --> 00:02:17.040 front and power buttons the top is a port activity indicator the second one 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:20.400 probably status of some point it's got a little like heartbeat sign which makes 00:02:18.900 --> 00:02:25.020 me think it tells you what's going on currently and then battery indicator I 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:28.980 never used the first generation of these tools I know that this these are the 00:02:26.700 --> 00:02:33.060 second generation ones I don't know what the main differences are but I do know 00:02:31.140 --> 00:02:36.360 that these ones have both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth which is super cool when I 00:02:34.860 --> 00:02:40.920 plug this thing in and turn the Wi-Fi hotspot on and connected my phone it 00:02:38.340 --> 00:02:45.180 actually acted as an access point to give my phone internet through the cable 00:02:43.200 --> 00:02:50.640 that it was plugged into which is super cool what app do we got here net tool I 00:02:48.780 --> 00:02:53.819 think I have the pro one already yeah oh wait what 00:02:51.900 --> 00:02:58.620 oh Pro 2. ah so the original one must have been 00:02:55.980 --> 00:03:02.580 called the nettool.io and then the pro version was the net tool i o Pro and 00:03:00.900 --> 00:03:06.540 then there's the Pro 2 and the light which is the two ones we have today kind 00:03:04.739 --> 00:03:10.620 of seems like it could be one app I'm not gonna lie but I know that they're a 00:03:08.640 --> 00:03:15.959 relatively small company so if this makes it a lot easier then cool 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:20.340 you look at that it's detected over Bluetooth and we'll check it out as soon as I tell 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:23.400 you about our sponsor secret lab chairs are engineered to keep you incredibly 00:03:21.780 --> 00:03:27.120 comfortable for long hours at work and play their Titan Evo 2022 chair keeps 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:29.940 you feeling comfortable for longer with four-way lumbar support and Ultra 00:03:28.739 --> 00:03:35.159 comfortable line 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there plug into the port let's see if it gets 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:16.739 an IP address boom it gets an IP address clearly there's something wrong with the 00:04:14.819 --> 00:04:20.040 device not the switch or the port it's so nice to be able to to carry this 00:04:18.479 --> 00:04:23.400 thing around and just plug into things let's see what else we could do of 00:04:21.660 --> 00:04:27.660 course the most important setting at the top dark mode oh God this is supposed to 00:04:25.979 --> 00:04:31.919 be one of the big selling features of the pro is the switch configurator I 00:04:29.820 --> 00:04:35.520 don't think it would work with this little UniFi switch because it's managed 00:04:33.960 --> 00:04:39.780 through ubiquity Zone interface but if you have like a Dell switch or Cisco 00:04:37.320 --> 00:04:44.040 switch you can go in here and configure a lot of different things the if is 00:04:42.479 --> 00:04:47.820 going to be whatever the command line is currently outputting as kind of your 00:04:46.020 --> 00:04:52.020 start so let's say that's the start you go switch underscore Port this is a 00:04:49.740 --> 00:04:55.139 placeholder as you can see up here is a key to import the current switchboard 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:59.759 that you're plugged into now that we have a template filled that we we can go into the configuration queue oh it shows 00:04:58.500 --> 00:05:04.199 you what the configuration capabilities are that's really cool I really wish I 00:05:01.919 --> 00:05:09.180 had something to try this part with man I was trying to wrap my head around what 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:13.440 this would be useful for in terms of configuring unless you just had to write 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:16.860 out like a whole script even if you're using like a touch interface it's still 00:05:15.419 --> 00:05:20.160 kind of annoying but it all makes sense now say you're in an office building and 00:05:18.540 --> 00:05:25.740 you're actually at the client's computer say there's a row of desks all with PCS 00:05:23.520 --> 00:05:30.000 plugged into the internet you take your net tool you go I want all these 00:05:28.020 --> 00:05:35.400 computers to be on this VLAN you plug into all the ports it records the port 00:05:32.400 --> 00:05:37.680 on here you make your configuration and 00:05:35.400 --> 00:05:41.340 you click it bam it applies the configuration to all of those ports that 00:05:39.840 --> 00:05:45.900 you plugged into otherwise you would have to have a perfect map of what 00:05:43.860 --> 00:05:49.259 individual switch each client is plugged into and in a perfect world you should 00:05:47.520 --> 00:05:53.400 but having to reference that especially if you're talking in an environment with 00:05:50.880 --> 00:05:57.419 hundreds or thousands of clients that can get pretty tricky especially if you 00:05:55.919 --> 00:06:01.380 only want to change one or two you just walk in you go plug plug you set up your 00:05:59.340 --> 00:06:05.759 if then if you just want to apply a VLAN I guess you can probably just do that in 00:06:02.880 --> 00:06:11.340 here so you configure with untag VLAN say our untag VLAN is 100 and 00:06:08.400 --> 00:06:15.479 automatically Port VLAN things I think if we plug it in here 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:19.259 in theory it should add it to the queue hey you did look at that switch 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:23.460 configuration queue sick again this is really not meant for like a UniFi switch 00:06:21.419 --> 00:06:28.020 like this but you can see it did grab the port which I guess reports as the 00:06:25.380 --> 00:06:32.639 Mac Address it said we want two flag it as Port 100 and then you would just go 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:36.360 and hit run assuming you set up the SSH credentials for the switch and whatnot 00:06:34.080 --> 00:06:41.280 bam it would apply it we configured the switch exactly how you want and then 00:06:38.280 --> 00:06:43.560 once that's done you can go well did it 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:46.860 work I can scan it again and see if it applied the VLAN I'm getting the right 00:06:45.180 --> 00:06:51.419 IP let's see if it picks up the tagged vlans hey look at that what else can I 00:06:49.440 --> 00:06:57.419 do can I blink the port Flash the Lan Port that's very helpful tag history oh 00:06:54.300 --> 00:06:59.639 let's add a tag Jake computer you tag 00:06:57.419 --> 00:07:02.460 this discovery J computer ah sick it literally saved every single thing it 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:06.780 read from it into like a little log file this thing 00:07:05.100 --> 00:07:09.240 has so many features to think that it's like a very small team that works on 00:07:08.400 --> 00:07:16.380 this thing for instance right now I can go in here and say I want to connect to let's say 00:07:13.979 --> 00:07:21.180 VLAN in theory rather than connecting to the native Network it would connect to 00:07:19.440 --> 00:07:26.280 that tagged VLAN that I provided which is great if you need to troubleshoot if a VLAN is working sometimes it seems to 00:07:24.419 --> 00:07:30.360 get stuck you can end up at the loading page pretty much infinitely and you kind 00:07:28.620 --> 00:07:35.819 of have to go back and reconnect maybe I didn't hit apply no it did hit apply 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:37.919 because it restarted right yeah 00:07:35.819 --> 00:07:42.000 it occurs to me that we didn't check if there was a firmware update when he sent 00:07:39.900 --> 00:07:46.800 me the first one he was like make sure you update the firmware oh there's no 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:52.319 updates available never mind to be entirely clear I have not tried the 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:57.180 tagged VLAN mode I also don't know if this port is working properly because I 00:07:55.139 --> 00:08:02.639 tried to plug this one in and it wasn't working so 00:07:59.220 --> 00:08:05.039 I turned that off for now I'm sure it 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:10.319 probably works but it didn't for me so your mileage may vary 00:08:07.080 --> 00:08:11.819 LMG 27 underscore two what the is 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:15.180 that wait it showed up a couple weeks ago you didn't tell anyone 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:19.319 do I have internet I'm pretty sure I do 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:24.300 it's pretty cool that's so cool 00:08:22.259 --> 00:08:27.780 it's not very fast it's really really not fast 00:08:25.520 --> 00:08:31.560 I don't think it's made for speed test it checks for a lot of things it pings 00:08:30.060 --> 00:08:37.800 the Gateway which would be your router to see if that's working which is great it pings the internet in this instance 00:08:35.219 --> 00:08:43.200 google.com to check if your actual network has internet connection and then 00:08:39.479 --> 00:08:44.459 it also did an HTTP https request to 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:49.680 make sure that it could load a website which to be working what else can we do 00:08:47.160 --> 00:08:54.000 Discovery timers there's so many Tools in this tool 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:59.040 well I'm connected over Bluetooth still connect over Wi-Fi wow that's way faster 00:08:56.160 --> 00:09:02.279 over Wi-Fi what have I been doing you can configure timeouts for each of the 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:05.820 different tests if you think that your lacp should only take 10 seconds and if 00:09:04.800 --> 00:09:10.440 it doesn't get it by then then something's wrong then you can set it to do that which is really nice Network 00:09:08.459 --> 00:09:15.420 time protocol yeah okay I guess it just syncs the device with ntp which is cool 00:09:12.300 --> 00:09:17.459 devices that's the current devices I 00:09:15.420 --> 00:09:20.940 noticed in the toggles that the STP option was disabled that might be why 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:25.920 that page doesn't work let's see grabbing toggle switch settings 00:09:23.220 --> 00:09:29.040 STP Discovery let's try that I think because we just have a router we're 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:33.959 plugged into a ubiquity dream machine there is no switches to spanning tree 00:09:32.580 --> 00:09:39.120 two um so it's not outputting any information 00:09:36.779 --> 00:09:42.540 what about Discovery packet yeah okay that gives us all the info there 00:09:40.800 --> 00:09:44.940 interesting you can set it to automatically save all of the 00:09:43.800 --> 00:09:49.440 discoveries so if you're running around trying to catalog a bunch of switches you can turn that on to auto save and by 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:55.320 default you actually have to go in and click tag but let's try turning the ARP thing on let's say you want to find the 00:09:52.740 --> 00:09:59.640 IP of a razzpi you just set up or the ipmi IP address of a new server you 00:09:58.140 --> 00:10:03.420 would just plug into the same switch and in theory with the ARP table you should 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:07.019 be able to find that device I think there's only a couple on here this is 00:10:05.160 --> 00:10:10.320 the router itself some computer that's plugged into this for testing and then 00:10:08.459 --> 00:10:13.500 this is the net tool itself and it also does a port scan of each of these 00:10:11.640 --> 00:10:16.320 devices especially for that ipmi one it should be able to find the web port for 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:21.360 instance to be able to connect to that and it'll give you that information to know that that probably is the one 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:25.740 you're looking for if it's running a web server versus a different device 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:29.580 none of these ones have a web server right I don't think so 00:10:27.300 --> 00:10:32.459 these have a web server this one I think the router should have a web server 00:10:30.959 --> 00:10:36.600 right did I not turn that on properly maybe now I get to show you the coolest 00:10:34.500 --> 00:10:40.620 part net toolcloud some of you have probably already thought that wow this 00:10:38.580 --> 00:10:44.519 is a really cool tool I should buy one for all my level one techs shout out 00:10:42.839 --> 00:10:47.940 Wendell but you kind of need remote access a lot of the time the people that 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:52.380 are going to be using a tool like this say like a level one technician that's 00:10:50.339 --> 00:10:55.620 trying to diagnose problems they're not going to have the kind of access needed 00:10:53.760 --> 00:10:58.800 to make changes and make fixes and whatnot something like this would be 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:03.720 really powerful if it had that remote access well it does through net tool 00:11:01.500 --> 00:11:07.019 Cloud you can automatically sync any readings off of this device so you're 00:11:05.339 --> 00:11:10.200 trying to diagnose an issue with one of your lower level techs and trying to 00:11:08.519 --> 00:11:13.980 figure out what's going on they can hook it up scan the port get all the 00:11:11.940 --> 00:11:16.980 information and it'll automatically sync to the cloud and you can have a bunch of 00:11:15.540 --> 00:11:21.300 these connected to the same account so you have 10 technicians they've all got 00:11:19.079 --> 00:11:25.440 one of these you say let me just label it Jake's tester on well Jake's tester 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:30.120 is getting this information was updated three minutes ago I can look at the 00:11:27.300 --> 00:11:35.519 historical tag discoveries I can look at the cloud specific history and add notes 00:11:33.060 --> 00:11:41.160 directly to it what is emulator does that let me oh no way oh my God okay so 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:45.540 what happens if I unplug it oh it doesn't have internet anymore that makes 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:46.980 sense okay well yeah okay I could have 00:11:45.540 --> 00:11:54.680 uh could have figured that one out myself we'll make a new network we'll call it 00:11:50.880 --> 00:11:54.680 test let's make it 00:11:55.279 --> 00:12:03.720 192.168.69.1 that one exists now and if we go to our port number two configure 00:12:00.420 --> 00:12:05.959 protocol test save hey look at that 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:10.440 beautiful 192.168.69.120. it hasn't updated on 00:12:07.920 --> 00:12:15.240 here though the cloud feature is in beta so it probably still has some some Kinks 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:19.760 to be worked out wait did it just update I don't know oh okay it updated 00:12:16.920 --> 00:12:25.260 beautiful there we go 192.168.69.120. again this part of it is 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:28.440 very very beta I would not be surprised 00:12:25.260 --> 00:12:31.079 if it is just this finicky that's okay 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:34.079 once it's working though this is really sick to be able to get all this 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:37.980 information I can imagine they're probably working on ways to get all of 00:12:35.880 --> 00:12:41.940 these configurations and settings and everything able to be directly 00:12:39.779 --> 00:12:45.000 interfaced through the cloud so you would just have your remote hands and 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:49.200 say hey idiot plug this thing in and I'll do all the work for you that would 00:12:46.680 --> 00:12:52.680 be freaking sweet right right now it's pretty read only 00:12:50.839 --> 00:12:56.160 but at least you can get that information and and yell at the person 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:59.579 to fix it or maybe you can just get that information from the client side and 00:12:58.019 --> 00:13:03.180 you're fixing it on the server side bada bing bada boom now it's fixed other than 00:13:01.920 --> 00:13:07.920 that I mean I guess I didn't talk about what the differences are between the 00:13:04.980 --> 00:13:11.279 light and the main one it looks like if you're all you're trying to do is kind 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:15.660 of troubleshooting and testing sort of stuff the light will fulfill most of 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:19.200 those purposes the pro does add pcap capture which can be very helpful it 00:13:17.339 --> 00:13:24.899 also adds all of the port configuration and switch configuration stuff and ARP 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:27.420 scanning but everything else DHCP 00:13:24.899 --> 00:13:31.980 detection IP detection Network detection flashing ports mapping the ports all 00:13:30.180 --> 00:13:36.720 this sort of stuff is on the light what's the pricing right now looks like 00:13:33.839 --> 00:13:40.860 199 for the light version and the pro is 299 decent price difference overall 00:13:39.300 --> 00:13:45.959 having the tool like this that can do this many Network related things for 200 00:13:43.740 --> 00:13:50.160 or 300 bucks I asked them to send another one this like I said I've been 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:55.800 using into one wherever it is on the floor for like a couple weeks now and on 00:13:53.519 --> 00:14:00.420 the first day I was like yo can you send us more of these I I kind of want to 00:13:58.680 --> 00:14:03.839 have one for my house even it's just very flexible and it gives you so much 00:14:02.100 --> 00:14:08.339 information for not a lot of money and not a lot of time I would uh highly 00:14:06.060 --> 00:14:11.100 recommend checking this thing out and I can imagine how far they've already come 00:14:09.779 --> 00:14:14.399 in such a short amount of time with these devices I can't wait to see what 00:14:13.139 --> 00:14:18.899 they're going to be capable of in a couple years or like version three I 00:14:16.980 --> 00:14:23.459 mean if this thing also had like cable testing stuff obviously that's way more 00:14:22.260 --> 00:14:27.300 expensive kind of completely different device but 00:14:25.560 --> 00:14:33.600 if that was all integrated into one like a net tool Elite that would be freaking 00:14:30.420 --> 00:14:36.000 sick but for now 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:40.860 I like this thing a lot if you like this video get subscribed to ShortCircuit 00:14:37.860 --> 00:14:42.600 and if you if you want to see more short 00:14:40.860 --> 00:14:47.480 circuit videos then go see more ShortCircuit videos I 00:14:44.820 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