31 July 2007

IfInfo v1.0
Neat little freeware utility

I’ve spent considerable time this morning in looking for some cool news to keep blog alive and then I remembered that I discovered something the other day, a neat little freeware utility that it could be helpful to some of you, so I thought I just had to share it with you guys.

Anyway, IfInfo is a small program to view current network interface information. With this program, you can see the IP address assigned to your phone, DNS address, and so on.

So why anyone does would like to know this information? Well, with the information that provides IfInfo, you can easily verify if the DHCP server on the WiFi router has given a valid IP address to the phone. In general, you can check if there is something wrong with your connection, or just to see whether a public access point gives me a public IP or private IP (i.e behind NAT).

Developer also has plans to improve the application and to implement the ping functionality, but it seems that pinging requires special capability, so I’ll just have to skip that for now.

You can download this simple program right here: