TCP/IP Administration tools

Abstract

Even though millions of people use TCP/IP every day without even knowing that these applications exist much less how they are critically important to those who maintain TCP/IP interworks. Since many of you are studying TPC/IP so that you can implement and administer this technology, understanding how these applications work is well worth your time. In this paper, I provide an overview of a number of software utilities that are commonly employed to help set up, configure, and maintain TCP/IP internetworks. These programs allow network administrator to perform functions such as checking the identity of a host, verifying connectivity between two hosts, checking the path of routers between devices, examining the configuration of a computer, and looking up a Domain Name System domain name.