Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition

Hour 14. TCP/IP Utilities

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Protocol problems

• Line problems

• Name resolution problems

• Network performance problems

• FTP and SFTP

• TFTP

• RCP and SCP

• NFS and SMB file service protocols

The TCP/IP environment includes a number of standard utilities for configuring, managing, and troubleshooting network connections. Other tools facilitate tasks such as communication and file transfer. 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 ...