TCP/IP Utilities Lab

This lab is part of a series of lab exercises designed to supplement coursework and provide students with a hands-on training experience based on real-world applications. This series of lab exercises is intended to support courseware for CompTIA Network+® certification.

This lab will identify common commands used to gather information about nodes on a network. Students will execute these commands in both Windows and Linux environments to compare and contrast their outputs.

This lab includes the following tasks:

Displaying computer information using the CLI Displaying IP information using the CLI Displaying DNS information using the CLI Displaying network connections using the CLI Using commands to test network connectivity Observing the ARP process using Wireshark®