DOS Commands Review - Study Material for Network Administrators

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Introduction
This paper will highlight some of the commands which network administrator ought to
familiarize themselves with so to constantly monitor an organization’s network
IPCONFIG command
An IP address is one of the features displayed by the IPCONFIG command. IP address is
part of TCP/IP protocols as it allows one to get online. SN Mask is a number which defines a
range of IP addresses which can be used in a certain network. SN mask is used to designate
subnets or sub-networks and to limit traffic between multiple network traffic. An example of SN
Mask is 255.255.255.0 which is a class IP address.
DNS is another feature which is associated with Ipconfig as shown by figure one above.
It is defined as a de-centralized naming system for services, computers and other resources
which are connected to the internet. Gateway is the last feature viewed in the ipconfig command.
The major aim of the gateway is to translate one protocol into another. Others displayed by
IPCONFIG command are Ethernet adapter, wireless LAN adapter, and tunnel adapter teredo
tunneling pseudo-interface (Matthews, 2007).
Figure 1: IP Config

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PING command
PING command is another DOS command line tool which is widely used by network
administrators. The command is used to test the ability of a certain user computer to reach a
certain destination. Example as shown by figure 2 where the command is used test if my user
computer is able to reach onto www.google.com. The command has sent four packets as the
time taken is between 34 ms and 68ms.

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Figure 2: PING command
From figure two one of the features with ping command is the Time To Live (TTL). This
is the value in Internet Protocol packet which tells a certain network router either the packet is
too long or it should be discarded. Packets get lost when a packet fails to reach the required
destination.
Figure three shows the IP address of phsc.edu which is 23.185.0.1