17.17. Answers to Review Questions

  1. C. The program Packet Internet Groper (ping) is used to find out if a host has the IP stack initialized.

  2. A. The ARP utility is used to display the contents of the ARP cache, which tracks the resolution of IP addresses to physical (MAC) addresses and will produce the displayed output.

  3. A. The nbt in nbtstat stands for "NetBIOS over TCP/IP." The purpose of nbtstat is to display the NetBIOS over TCP/IP statistics for a computer running both protocols.

  4. B. The purpose of the ping utility is to test the communications channel between two IP hosts as well as how long it takes the packets to get from one host to another.

  5. C. The ipconfig /all utility will display current configuration of TCP/IP on a given workstation—including ...

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