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neTiPx is a modern desktop tool for Windows for comfortable management of network adapters and IP configurations. With an intuitive user interface, neTiPx provides quick access to all important network settings and information.
- 🔌 Adapter Management: Overview of up to two network adapters with detailed information
- 🌐 IP Profile Manager: Manage multiple IP profiles for quick switching between network configurations
- 📊 Network Information: Detailed display of IPv4/IPv6 addresses, gateway, DNS and MAC addresses
- 🎯 Connection Status: Real-time ping monitoring of gateway and DNS servers with visual traffic light indicator
- 🎨 Theme Support: Customizable color themes (Light/Dark/System) with multiple predefined color schemes
- 📍 System Tray Integration: Minimize to taskbar with hover window for quick network info
- 🚀 Autostart: Optionally start with the system
- 🛰️ PING Tool: Monitor multiple targets in parallel (IPv4/IPv6), enable/disable per target
- 📝 Ping Logging: Automatic log files per target including opening, exporting and deleting
- 🧭 Background Operation: Pings continue optionally when the ping page is not active
- 📡 WLAN Scanner: Native Windows API for detailed WLAN network information
- 🧮 Network Calculator: IP subnet calculations with intelligent range detection and bidirectional synchronization
- 🔎 Network Scanner: Scan IP ranges with port checking and detailed view of found devices
- 📄 Log Viewer: Open and live display of log files with filtering, highlight rules, 16-color swatch selection and optional auto-scroll
- 🛣️ Routes Tool: Display current IPv4 routes including delete function for user-defined/persistent routes and direct addition of new routes
- 🧩 Modular Tools Page: Ping, WLAN, Network Calculator, Network Scanner, Log Viewer and Routes as separate subpages with lazy loading
- 🗂️ Page Visibility: Main and tool pages can be shown/hidden via
PagesVisibility.xml - 🛠️ Hidden Admin Configuration: On the Settings page, the word
Wünschenopens a dialog for managing page visibility
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The Adapter page displays detailed information about your configured network adapters:
Displayed Information:
- Name and MAC address of the adapter
- IPv4 addresses with subnet masks
- IPv6 addresses
- Gateway addresses (IPv4 and IPv6)
- DNS servers (IPv4 and IPv6)
- Clear display for up to two adapters simultaneously
Manage multiple IP profiles and quickly switch between different network configurations:
Features:
- Profile Manager: Create, edit and delete IP profiles
- DHCP or Manual: Choose between automatic and manual IP configuration
- Multiple IP Addresses: Assign multiple IP addresses to an adapter
- DNS Configuration: Configure primary and secondary DNS servers
- Routes per Profile: Manage static IPv4 routes directly in the IP profile
- Route Mode: Choose between
replaceandaddexisting persistent routes per profile - System Reconciliation: Existing system routes are detected and marked in the profile dialog
- Real-time Connection Status: Monitor gateway and DNS servers with color-coded traffic light
- 🟢 Green: Reachable (good ping)
- 🟡 Yellow: Reachable (slow ping)
- 🔴 Red: Unreachable
- Ping Display: Shows current ping times for gateway and DNS servers
The Ping Tool enables monitoring of multiple targets with individual timing and protocol display:
Features:
- Multiple Targets: Add and monitor IPs or hostnames in parallel
- Interval per Target: Individual ping frequency per entry
- IPv4/IPv6 Display: Response time and status indicator per protocol
- Active Status per Line: Enable and disable individual targets independently
- Background Option: Pings continue optionally even when the Ping page is not in focus
- Status for Unused Protocols: Display
inactivewith gray indicator
The WLAN Scanner uses the native Windows WLAN API for detailed network information:
Features:
- Native API: Direct access to Windows WLAN interface
- Sortable Table: Click column headers to sort
- 📶 Signal Symbol (strength visualization)
- SSID (Network name)
- Signal (Percent)
- BSSID (MAC address of access point)
- Detailed Information in three areas:
- Signal: Strength (%), Quality (%), RSSI (dBm)
- Frequency: Band (2.4G/5G/6G), Channel, Frequency (MHz)
- Security & Standard: Encryption (🔓 secured / 🔒 open), PHY Type (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax), Network Type
- Band Detection: Automatic detection of 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 6 GHz (Wi-Fi 6E)
- Signal Symbols:
- 📶 Strong (≥75%)
- 📳 Medium (50-74%)
- 📴 Weak (25-49%)
- ❌ Very Weak (<25%)
The Network Calculator provides intelligent IP subnet calculations with automatic synchronization:
Features:
- Intelligent Input: IP address, subnet mask or CIDR suffix - all fields update automatically
- Bidirectional Synchronization:
- Change subnet mask → automatic calculation of CIDR suffix and max hosts
- Change CIDR suffix → automatic calculation of subnet mask and max hosts
- Change max hosts → automatic calculation of subnet mask and CIDR suffix
- Plus/Minus Control: Quick switching between valid host counts (e.g. 254 → 510 → 1022)
- Automatic Calculation: Results displayed immediately with valid input
- IP Range Detection: Automatic classification of entered IP:
- Private Range (10.x.x.x, 172.16-31.x.x, 192.168.x.x)
- Public Range
- Loopback (127.x.x.x)
- Zeroconf/Link-Local (169.254.x.x)
- Multicast (224.x.x.x - 239.x.x.x)
- Shared Address Space/CGNAT (100.64.x.x)
- Documentation Range
- Broadcast, Unspecified, Reserved
- Detailed Results:
- Network address and broadcast address
- First and last usable IP
- Subnet mask and CIDR suffix
- Number of available hosts
- Wildcard mask
The Network Scanner searches local IP ranges and displays detected devices including port status.
Features:
- IP Range Scanning: Single ranges or multiple ranges in one request
- Port Checking: Freely configurable port list for reachability and service checking
- Device List with Details: Overview of detected hosts with detail area for quick evaluation
- Direct Actions: Open ports can be opened with the default application by double-click
The Log Viewer opens existing log files and displays new entries live in a separate tool subpage.
Features:
- File Selection and History: Recently used log files can be reopened directly
- Live Display: New entries are automatically appended to the existing view
- Filter and Search: Free-text filter with hit counter (
visible / total) and instant update - Highlight Rules: Search terms can be color-highlighted
- Color Selection via Swatches: Selection via colored rectangle swatches instead of text list
- Extended Color Palette: 16 selectable colors for highlights
- Automatic Scrolling: Optional auto-scroll to end of file as new entries arrive
- Robust Reloading: Display remains readable even while file is being written by another process
The Routes Tool displays the current IPv4 routing table and supports targeted analysis for a specific destination.
The Info page consolidates version and update information along with important links.
Features:
- Route Overview: Display of active and persistent IPv4 routes including default route (
0.0.0.0/0) - Delete Logic by Source: Delete button only for user-defined/static routes, system routes marked as
System Route - Target IP Filter: Enter target IP to display only relevant routes (Longest Prefix Match + Metric)
- Sortable Table: Sort via column headers with direction indicator (
▲/▼) - Add Route: Create persistent route directly from the tool
Configure the application to your needs:
Configuration Options:
- Adapter 1 & 2: Select the two main adapters displayed on the Adapter page
- Only active network adapters are available for selection
- Hover Window: Display network information when hovering over the tray icon
- Minimization: Option to minimize to taskbar instead of closing
- Windows Startup: Automatically start the application at system startup
- Minimized Start: Start the application minimized in system tray
- Choose Log Folder: Custom storage location for ping logs
- Default Folder: Quick reset to default path
- Path Display: Dynamically adjusted single-line display with tooltip for full path
- Configuration File:
%APPDATA%\neTiPx\PagesVisibility.xml - Hidden Dialog: Click the word
Wünschenin Settings - Grouped Control: Separate areas for
Main PagesandTools - Tools Dependency:
Tools (Main Page)off => all tool sub-pages off- One tool sub-page on =>
Tools (Main Page)automatically on - All tool sub-pages off =>
Tools (Main Page)automatically off
- Always Visible:
Adapter Info,InfoandSettingsare permanently visible and cannot be hidden via XML - Live Update: When closing the dialog, XML values are saved and navigation is updated immediately
- Theme Selection: Choose from multiple predefined color themes
- Light/Dark/System
- Red, Blue, Green, Orange, Purple, Teal
- Custom Themes: Create and edit your own color themes
- Theme Editor: Customize background, text and accent colors individually
- The application supports multiple languages. Select the display language from the dropdown menu in Settings.
- The dropdown displays the native names of languages (e.g. "Deutsch", "English", "Español"). These are dynamically loaded from language files.
- Language changes take effect immediately on the entire user interface.
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- Parallel Monitoring: Multiple targets are monitored simultaneously
- Target Types: Supports IPv4, IPv6 and hostnames
- Visible Protocol Behavior:
- Unused protocol displays
inactiveand a gray indicator - Disabled target displays
Disabledfor both protocols
- Unused protocol displays
- Flexible Activation:
- Per target via row checkbox
- Global for background operation via
continue active in background
- Individual Log File per Target: Unique filenames, even with special characters in target name
- CSV Format with Timestamp:
Time;Target;Protocol;Response Time - Direct Actions in List:
- Open log file
- Optionally delete with
- Before deleting, optionally export via
Save As
- Protocol-Specific Logging: Only relevant IPv4/IPv6 entries are written
- Supported Formats: Opens log, text, CSV and JSON files for quick visual inspection
- Live Append Instead of Full Reload: New data is appended to existing display without rebuilding the entire file each time
- Highlight Rules with Color Swatches: Rules can be created, removed, imported and exported; color selection via visual swatches
- 16 Highlight Colors: Extended palette for better visual distinction in logs
- Filter with Hit Counter: Text search with highlighting and display
visible / total - Auto-Scroll Optional: With option enabled, view stays at end of file; when disabled, current position is retained
- Complete Localization: All visible Log Viewer texts including highlight dialog come from language files
- Fault-Tolerant Reading: File is opened with shared access so actively written logs can be observed
- Native Windows WLAN API: Direct P/Invoke access to wlanapi.dll
- WlanOpenHandle: WLAN interface initialization
- WlanEnumInterfaces: List available WLAN adapters
- WlanGetNetworkBssList: Retrieve detailed BSS information
- Thread-Safe UI Updates: DispatcherQueue for safe updates from background threads
- Comprehensive Network Information:
- Signal: dBm, Percent, Link Quality
- Frequency: MHz, Channel, Band (2.4/5/6 GHz)
- Security: Privacy Bit, Encryption Status
- Standard: PHY Type (802.11 variants), Network Type (Infrastructure/Ad-Hoc)
- Hardware: BSSID, Beacon Interval
- Robustness: Automatic fallback to netsh command line if API issues occur
- Asynchronous Scanning: Non-blocking host and port checks for smooth operation
- Cancellable: Running scans can be controlled stop
- Sortable Results List: Devices can be ordered by relevant columns
- Detail View per Device: Summarized host information and detected open ports
- Source-Based Classification: Combination of
route print, CIM (Win32_IP4PersistedRouteTable) andGet-NetRouteto distinguish system and user routes - Persistence Detection: Static/persistent routes are detected as deletable, system-level on-link/local/DHCP routes remain protected
- Routing Decision in Filter: For target IPs, only candidates with best prefix and best metric are displayed
- Safe Delete/Add Operations: Route changes are performed elevated and table is re-read after action
- Multiple Profiles: Save different network configurations for various locations (Office, Home Office, External)
- Quick Switching: Switch between saved profiles with just a few clicks
- DHCP Support: Automatic IP configuration via DHCP
- Manual Configuration: Detailed control over IP addresses, subnet masks, gateway and DNS
- Integrated Route Management: Profile-specific static IPv4 routes with dialog for management and system reconciliation
- Validation: Automatic verification of entered IP addresses and network configuration
- Multi-IP: Assign multiple IP addresses to an adapter simultaneously
- Automatic Monitoring: Continuous pinging of gateway and DNS servers (every 5 seconds)
- Visual Display: Color-coded traffic light shows status at a glance
- Ping Times: Detailed display of response times in milliseconds
- Multiple Monitoring: Simultaneous monitoring of gateway, DNS1 and DNS2
- Customizable Interface: Adapt the appearance of the application to your preferences
- Predefined Themes: Multiple professional color schemes to choose from
- Real-Time Preview: See changes immediately in the application
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- Operating System: Windows 10 Version 1809 (Build 17763) or later
- Framework: .NET 8.0 Runtime
- UI Framework: WinUI 3 (Windows App SDK) - required
- Permissions: Administrator rights for changes to network settings
neTiPx requires Windows App SDK 1.8.5 to run. If you receive the following error:
Download and install the Windows App SDK from: Microsoft Windows App SDK Downloads
- Check System Requirements: Ensure that Windows App SDK is installed (see System Requirements)
- Download the latest setup package from the Releases section
- Run
neTiPx_Setup_Vx.x.x.x.exe - Follow the installation wizard instructions
- Start neTiPx from the Start menu or desktop icon
Notes:
- Administrator rights are required for changes to network settings.
- If you receive an error message about Windows App SDK at startup, see System Requirements.
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See LICENSE in the repository. For code questions, please use Issues/PRs in the repo.
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