Implementing TCP/IP in the Command Line

This chapter defines what you need to know in order to use basic and advanced TCP/IP commands in the Command Prompt window. This will develop important skills you will need as a network administrator. Ipconfig and ping are some of the best friends to a network administrator. These basic TCP/IP commands can help to analyze and troubleshoot networking issues that might occur. They also offer a certain amount of configurative ability, as well as the ability to create performance baselines. They are accessed through the Command Prompt window, a tool that every network administrator should have confidence in using. To better understand how to work with TCP/IP in the command line, it is necessary to discuss how to access the Command Prompt window as an administrator. It is also important to show some of the ways to make the Command Prompt window work for you and show how to view help files. The Command Prompt window is the Microsoft version of a command‐line interface (CLI). Just about anything you can accomplish in the GUI can also be done in the Command Prompt window, and when it comes to TCP/IP commands, the Command Prompt window can be even more effective. Today's Command Prompt window is the executable fi le cmd.exe. This is located in C:\Windows\system32. The older command.com is not recommended when working with TCP/IP commands.