TCP/IP provides the following diagnostic tools:
- arp
- Displays and modifies the IP-to-Ethernet or token ring physical address
translation tables used by address resolution protocol (ARP).
- hostname
- Displays the host name of your workstation.
- ifconfig
- Displays all current TCP/IP network configuration values. This is helpful
if you have to find out if an IP interface is active.
- netstat
- Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP network connections.
This helps you obtain information about your own IP interfaces, for example,
to list IP addresses and TCP/IP routing tables in use at your workstation.
- nslookup
- Displays information from Domain Name System (DNS) name servers.
- ping
- Verifies connections to a remote computer or computers.
- traceroute
- Traces the TCP/IP path to a requested destination. It is useful for
determining whether there is a problem with one of the intermediate nodes.
For more information on these utilities, refer to the online help for
TCP/IP.