Hour 14. TCP/IP Utilities

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

Protocol problems

Line problems

Name resolution problems

Network performance problems

The TCP/IP environment includes a number of standard utilities for configuring, managing, and troubleshooting network connections. These TCP/IP utilities date back to the days before the birth of the modern graphical user interface, and many of them are designed to operate from the command line. A command-line interface might sound old fashioned, but many seasoned network admins still find that working from the command prompt is faster, simpler, and more effective than clicking a mouse and shuffling through windows.

This hour looks at some utilities you can use to troubleshoot and configure TCP/IP. ...

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