Routing is the process by which an item gets from one location to another. Many items get routed: for example, mail, telephone calls, and trains. In networking, a router is the device used to route traffic. The routing information a router learns from its routing sources is placed in its routing table. The router will rely on this… Read More »
To understand why the UNIX operating system has so many commands and why it’s not only the premier multi-user, multitasking operating system, but also the most successful and the most powerful multichoice system for computers, you’ll have to travel back in time. You’ll need to learn where UNIX was designed, what were the goals of the original programmers,… Read More »
A router is a device that connects two or more packet-switched networks or subnetworks. It serves two primary functions, described below.
Stand for InterFace CONFIGurator – display your ip address, network interfaces, transferred and received data information, configure a network interface.
Make links between files, by default, it makes hard links; with the ‘-s’ option, it makes symbolic (or “soft”) links.
A flexible tool for interrogating DNS name servers. It performs DNS lookups and displays the answers that are returned from the name server(s) that were queried. Most DNS administrators use dig to troubleshoot DNS problems because of its flexibility, ease of use and clarity of output. Other lookup tools tend to have less functionality than dig.
Substitute a drive letter for a network or local path. This comes in handy when you want to reference a directory which may have a really long path by a drive letter.
TaskList displays all running applications and services with their Process ID (PID) This can be run on either a local or a remote computer.
Find the IP address of any remote host. TRACERT is useful for troubleshooting large networks where several paths can be taken to arrive at the same point, or where many intermediate systems (routers or bridges) are involved.
Windows NT diagnostics II