From the course: Introduction to Network Routing

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Routing tools

Routing tools

From the course: Introduction to Network Routing

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Routing tools

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- [Instructor] There are a lot of built-in tools into all modern operating systems to test connectivity as well as routing. I'm in a Windows operating system right now and I like to use several tools such as IPConfig. IPConfig gives us general IP information, but if we also add the /all, we'll get a lot more information such as the NetBIOS, over TCP, IP connectivity, DNS servers, what DHCP servers we're using and others. Another tool I like to use, of course, is ping which a lot of people are aware of. However, there's some great switches to use with ping to test out connectivity as well. So if I put in ping minus A followed by the IP address, it also resolves the name that's attached to that IP address. This would be a reverse or pointer record. I also like to use the minus T switch. So if I change that from a minus A to a minus T, what it does is it gives us a continuous ping. This is very similar to what happens in…

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