Verifying Network Operations

Most people who have had to troubleshoot a network issue have learned to use the ping utility. Given a proper IP address for a target, the ping utility will tell you if the target heard you. This conversation, however, relies on quite a few assumptions that may not hold. Those assumptions include the following:

Image Your system is connected to a network.

Image Your system is configured correctly.

Image You are testing a reachable system. ...

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