Chapter 17. Command-Line Tools

THE FOLLOWING COMPTIA NETWORK+ EXAM OBJECTIVES ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:

  • 5.1 Given a scenario, select the appropriate command line interface tool and interpret the output to verify functionality

    • Traceroute

    • Ipconfig

    • Ifconfig

    • Ping

    • Arp ping

    • Arp

    • Nslookup

    • Hostname

    • Dig

    • Mtr

    • Route

    • Nbstat

    • Netstat

Command-Line Tools

You can use several utilities to verify TCP/IP function on Windows workstations, and most of them are listed in the chapter objectives. But there are a few others that I'm going to discuss with you because they're really important for anyone working in the networking field to know about. Here's a list of them:

  • Traceroute (tracert in other environments) ...

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