Chapter 28. Troubleshooting Networking Issues

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

• Viewing and manipulating TCP/IP configuration with ipconfig

• Checking connectivity with ping

• Viewing the router path with tracert

• Checking for data loss with pathping

Tip

You should be familiar with these commands when preparing for the 70-642 and 70-646 exams.

Viewing and Manipulating TCP/IP Configuration with ipconfig

The ipconfig command is a useful command you can use to view and manipulate TCP/IP configuration information. The most common way to use it is to view the TCP/IP configuration data for a system. You can do so with this command:

ipconfig

or

ipconfig /all

The following table shows some of the output ...

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