Introduction
Purists among you will note that the commands covered in this section are usually associated with TCP/IP and thus might organizationally have been included in that chapter. My justification for organizing them into two chapters is that these commands are concerned with accomplishing actual work in a network environment, whereas the commands in the TCP/IP chapter are more concerned with the infrastructure used to facilitate that work. Also the TCP/ IP chapter was getting awfully long.
The commands covered in this chapter include
| ftp | Transfer files between networked machines. |
| hostname | Display or set name of host. |
| netstat | Display network usage information. |
| ping | Request confirmation packed from remote host. |
| rarp | Reverse Address Resolution ... |
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