Chapter 10. Command-Line Tools

After completion of this chapter, you will be able to answer the following questions:

  • What are some of the more useful Microsoft Windows commands for configuring and troubleshooting network clients and servers?

  • What are some of the more useful UNIX commands for configuring and troubleshooting network clients and servers?

Your configuration and troubleshooting of networks will undoubtedly involve issuing commands at an operating system (OS) prompt of an end-user computer (a client) or a server. This chapter provides you with a collection of commands you can use at those OS prompts. The two operating systems for which commands are provided are Microsoft Windows and UNIX.

Some commands, you will notice, exist on ...

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