Monday, April 1, 2013

Network Troubleshooting Commands



Troubleshooting computer network is one of the descriptions of the most important functions of network administrators, system administrators, network technicians and IT consultants. A computer network can have different types of problems, as they can be infected with viruses and spyware, attacked by hackers, accessed by unauthorized users and may face connectivity problems due to inadequate or faulty network devices configurations. Below is a list of the basic commands of network troubleshooting that are built into Windows based operating systems and UNIX etc. The right use of these troubleshooting commands can help much in the diagnosis and solution of problems with your computer network.

PING

The ping command is the most important troubleshooting and testing connectivity to other computers. For example, the IP address of your system is the address 10.10.10.10 and your network servers' IP is 10.10.10.1 and you can check the connectivity to the server using the ping command in the following format.

A DOS prompt, type ping 10.10.10.1 and press enter

If you get the response from the server then the connectivity is good and if you get the error message like this "Request time out", this means there is a problem with the connection to the server. Read More

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