Network Trouble shooting Commands

Network Trouble shooting Commands

Hi All, Today i am going to talk about few commands in networking which are very useful for network troubleshooting.

Below mentioned are the commands:

1. Ping
2. Trace route
3. IP  config

Ping command bounces a small packet off a domain or IP address to test network connectivity, and tells how long the packet took to make the round trip. Its most commonly used command for conducting the most basic network test and to verify that a device can communicate with another device on a network. 

Fig 1: Ping command for goolge.com

When you "Ping"  google.com it sends some data and gets reply from it. Otherwise it shows like connection times out or host not reachable. If lost is 0%, then network is reachable with out data (Packet) loss.

Ipconfig command gives information about your system IP configuration details. Below fig 2 is the example.

Fig 2:  Ipconfig command

The traceroute command used to show several details about the path that a packet takes from the computer or device to what ever specified destination.

Fig 3: Tracert command

Traceroute is a utility that records the route (the specific gateway computers at each hop) through the Internet between your computer and a specified destination computer. It also calculates and displays the amount of time each hop took. Thank you for reading the article.