TCP/IP Utilities
Other residents of the Application layer are TCP/IP's utilities. The TCP/IP utilities originally were developed around the Internet and early Unix networks. These utilities are now used to configure, manage, and troubleshoot TCP/IP networks throughout the world, and versions of these utilities are now available with Windows and other network operating systems.
This book classifies the TCP/IP utilities into four categories: connectivity utilities, file transfer and access utilities, remote access utilities, and Internet utilities. The Internet applications (shown in Table 7.1 and discussed in Hour 16, “How the Internet Works”) are newer and less Unix-like than the other applications in Table 7.1, but they are similar in that they ...
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