C

Laboratory Tutorial

This tutorial gives a hands-on experience to the students learning basic networking tools and SNMP-based tools.

C.1 NETWORK BASIC TOOLS LAB

Read about functions and the use of the following basic network tool commands. You can invoke man commandname to obtain the manual page of a command in a UNIX system.

  1. ping
  2. traceroute
  3. nslookup
  4. host
  5. dig

Use these commands in the Lab to do the following practice exercises. You may create your own additional exercises and be prepared to discuss them in class.

  1. Choose any IP address in your subnet or outside and find the name of the host.
  2. Ping at least two public institutions' addresses inside and outside India. Analyse your results and note the significant points.

Execute traceroute ...

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