NETWORKING COMMANDS

This will help you to know some networking commands useful for troubleshooting the networks.

• IPCONIG Or IPCONIG/ALL

                                IPCONFIG is a DOS utility, which can be used from MS-DOS to display the network settings currently assigned and given by network. This command can be utilized to verify a network connection as well as to verify your network settings.

• NETSTAT

                              Display active TCP connections, ports on which the computer is listening, Ethernet statistics, the IP routing table,IPV4 statistics(for the IP,ICMP,TCP and UDP protocols), and IPv6 statistics(for the IPv6,ICMPv6, TCP over IPv6 and UDP over IPv6 protocols). Used without parameters, netstat displays active TCP connections.

• TRACERT

                             The TRACERT command is used to visually see a network packet being sent and received  and the  amount of hops   required for that packet to get its destination. Users with Microsoft Windows 2000 and windows Xp who need additional information network latency and network loss should also consider the PATHPING command.

• PING

                            This command helps in determining TCP/IP Networks IP address as well as determine issues with the network and assists in resolving them.

• PATHPING

                           It provides information about network loss at intermediate hops between a source and destination. Pathping  sends multiple Echo Request messages to each router between a source and destination aver a period of time and then computer results based on packets returned  from each router.

• TELNET

                         TELNET is software that allows user to remotely access another computer such as server, network device, or other computer. With TELNET users can connect to a device or computer, manage a network device, setup a device, transfer files.

• FTP 

                     FTP is short for File Transfer Protocol, this page contains additional information about  the FTP command and help using that command in Unix and in MS-DOS

• NET VIEW 

                      This command helps to find how many computers are online in a network.

• NET SEND 

                     This command is used for messaging between computers. 

Type net send 'computer name/ ip address ' hello

• ROUTE 

                       It is used for configure manually the routes in the routing table

• NSLOOKUP 

 Displays information that you can use to diagnose Domain Name System(DNS)  infrastructure. Before using this tool, you should be familiar with how DNS works. The Nslookup command-line  tool is available only if you have installed the TCP/IP protocol.