Lab 1 1 Network Connectivity testing - Shadowsarespooky/TechJournal GitHub Wiki

Lab 1-1 - Network Connectivity testing

Objectives: Test simple network connectivity using common command-line tools like ping, tracert, and nslookup. Introduce concepts of IP addresses and hostnames.

In this lab, we lowered the firewall and used commands such as ping, tracert, and nslookup to see what networks my vm is connected to and how we can trace where our information is going.

Commands used during the lab:

• ping

Send some packets with data to test a connection between two IP addresses.

• tracert

Use this command to trace the route the packets take, this is useful to diagnose a network.

• nslookup

This command is used to query the DNS for the domain names or IP addresses of a website.

• ipconfig and ipconfig/all

The command ipconfig shows us the information about our Ethernet Network Adapter. It gives the name of DNS, the IPv4 Address, Subnet Mask, and the Default Gateway. Then adding /all gives us more information on the Ethernet Network Adapter and on the Windows IP Configuration.

Luckily there were no problems while completing the labs.