Network Management, MIBs and MPLS: Principles, Design and Implementation

Appendix B. Some Simple IP Routing Experiments

This appendix provides some examples of using the Windows NT/2000 console IP utilities.

The IP Routing Table

Netstat is a very useful tool for looking at various aspects of the IP configuration. Here, we illustrate the IP routing table on a Windows 2000 PC.

C:\netstat -r

Route Table
Interface List
0x1 .................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x1000003 ...00 b0 d0 16 48 97 ... 3Com EtherLink PCI

Active Routes:
Network Dest   Netmask        Gateway        Interface     Metric
0.0.0.0        0.0.0.0        142.159.65.17  142.159.65.29  1
127.0.0.0      255.0.0.0      127.0.0.1      127.0.0.1      1
142.159.65.0   255.255.255.0  142.159.65.29  142.159.65.29  1
Default Gateway:  142.159.65.17

Persistent Routes:
None

Ping

Ping is an indispensable tool for determining ...