Assignment

Questions 1

A. What is the IP Address of your computer?
B. What command did you use to get it?

Questions 2

A. What is the MAC Address / Physical Address of your computer?
B. What command did you use to get it?

Questions 3

A. What is your EXTERNAL Facing IP Address?
B. This is NOT the same as question 1

How did you get it?

Questions 4

A. What command can you use to test connectivity between two hosts?
B. What is shown when you test the connectivity to yahoo?

Questions 5

A. What command can you use to show the path a packet takes to get from your computer to another host?
B. What is shown when you use this command to find the path to yahoo?

Questions 6

A. What command do you use to show all of the IP addresses that have been resolved to MAC addresses?

Questions 7

A. What command do you use to see:
• The DNS Server you are using (Name)
• The IP Address of the server

Questions 8

A. Using the same command from question 7
B. What happens when you look up www.yahoo.com?

Describe what you are seeing in the output? When you look up www.yahoo.com there will be EIGHT lines (approximately) What dord each line represent (fill in below)

1. .
2. .
3. .
4. .
5. .
6. .
7. .
8. .

Questions 9

A. What command do you use to see if the IP addressing you are using DHCP?
B. This same command can be used to see how long the lease is for the IP address? What is the start and end of your lease period?
C. What is the DHCP Server IP Address?

Questions 10

A. What command do you use to see network connections?
B. How would you modify the command to see statistics about inbound and outbound traffic?

Question 11

The following three questions are not for a specific command, switch or parameter? For the below three questions I am NOT looking for examples of commands, switches or parameter. I am looking for the general definitions of the word "command", "switch" and "parameter"

1. What is a Command?
2. What is a switch?
3. What is a parameter?

Issue any command with a parameter and a switch

The following six questions ARE for the specific command, switch and parameter that you chose.

1. What was the command you used?
2. What does the command do?
3. What was the parameter you used?
4. What did the parameter do?
5. What was the switch you used?
6. What did that switch do?