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I was looking for like an ISO i can spin up with a VM and use something around web-based gui to monitor the network state connections.
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The answer depends on what precisely you are trying to measure, for example, uptime, bandwidth usage, "hits" or connections, etc.
The tools I use most frequently are ping and traceroute, because I'm usually looking to test the reliability of my connect. Next would probably whois for me.
Here's a
good intro. And
here's another that might be more what you are looking for.