Network Commands
In Chapters 24 and 25, you learn about networking your computer with other computers and making connections to the Internet. Although most people are familiar with using a network browser to search for interesting content on the Internet, you should be aware of a few commands that have been around for a long time. Diagnostic commands, such as ping and tracert are discussed in Chapter 23, “Disaster Recovery.” However, several applications are available at the command line that you may find useful. Use the /? switch to obtain further help for these commands:
Telnet—This is standard remote terminal application developed early in the development of the transfer call protocol/Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP). As with the rest of the ...
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