Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 35 views

    Data Communication AND Networking Lab File: Birla Institute of Tecnology, Ranchi (Noida Campus)

    Uploaded by

    Srijan Apurva
    The document provides information on various networking commands such as ifconfig, traceroute, dig, telnet, nslookup, netstat, scp, w, nmap, and how to enable or disable network interfaces using ifup/ifdown along with examples of how to use each command and what purpose they serve for examining network configuration and troubleshooting connectivity issues. It also includes descriptions of what each command is used for and sample outputs when running the commands.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Data Communication AND Networking Lab File: Birla Institute of Tecnology, Ranchi (Noida Campus)

    Uploaded by

    Srijan Apurva
    35 views7 pages
    The document provides information on various networking commands such as ifconfig, traceroute, dig, telnet, nslookup, netstat, scp, w, nmap, and how to enable or disable network interfaces using ifup/ifdown along with examples of how to use each command and what purpose they serve for examining network configuration and troubleshooting connectivity issues. It also includes descriptions of what each command is used for and sample outputs when running the commands.

    Original Title

    lab file.docx

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document provides information on various networking commands such as ifconfig, traceroute, dig, telnet, nslookup, netstat, scp, w, nmap, and how to enable or disable network interfaces using ifup/ifdown along with examples of how to use each command and what purpose they serve for examining network configuration and troubleshooting connectivity issues. It also includes descriptions of what each command is used for and sample outputs when running the commands.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    35 views7 pages

    Data Communication AND Networking Lab File: Birla Institute of Tecnology, Ranchi (Noida Campus)

    Uploaded by

    Srijan Apurva
    The document provides information on various networking commands such as ifconfig, traceroute, dig, telnet, nslookup, netstat, scp, w, nmap, and how to enable or disable network interfaces using ifup/ifdown along with examples of how to use each command and what purpose they serve for examining network configuration and troubleshooting connectivity issues. It also includes descriptions of what each command is used for and sample outputs when running the commands.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 7

    BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECNOLOGY,RANCHI (NOIDA CAMPUS)

    DATA
    COMMUNICATION
    AND
    NETWORKING
    LAB FILE

    NAME:-

    ROLL NO:-
    COMMANDS
    Ifconfig
    ifconfig utility is used to configure network interface
    parameters.

    Mostly we use this command to check the IP address


    assigned to the system.

    [root@localhost ~]# ifconfig -a


    eno16777736: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu
    1500
    ether 00:0c:29:c5:a5:61 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
    RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
    RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
    TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
    TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
    lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
    inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
    inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
    loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)
    RX packets 2 bytes 140 (140.0 B)
    RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
    TX packets 2 bytes 140 (140.0 B)
    TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
    [root@localhost ~]#

    traceroute
    traceroute print the route packets take to network host.
    Destination host or IP is mandatory parameter to use this
    utility

    [root@localhost ~]# traceroute geekflare.com


    traceroute to geekflare.com (162.159.243.243), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
    1 172.16.179.2 (172.16.179.2) 0.154 ms 0.074 ms 0.074 ms
    2***
    3***

    dig
    dig (Domain Information Groper) is a flexible tool for
    interrogating DNS name servers.

    It performs DNS lookups and displays the answers that are


    returned from the name servers.

    [root@localhost ~]# dig geekflare.com


    ; <<>> DiG 9.9.4-RedHat-9.9.4-14.el7 <<>> geekflare.com
    ;; global options: +cmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18699
    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
    ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
    ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; MBZ: 0005 , udp: 4000
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;geekflare.com. IN A
    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    geekflare.com. 5 IN A 162.159.244.243
    geekflare.com. 5 IN A 162.159.243.243
    ;; Query time: 6 msec
    ;; SERVER: 172.16.179.2#53(172.16.179.2)
    ;; WHEN: Sun May 01 23:28:19 PDT 2016
    ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 74
    [root@localhost ~]#
    telnet
    telnet connect destination host:port via a telnet protocol if
    connection establishes means connectivity between two
    hosts is working fine.

    [root@localhost ~]# telnet geekflare.com 443


    Trying 162.159.244.243...
    Connected to geekflare.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.

    nslookup
    nslookup is a program to query Internet domain name
    servers.

    [root@localhost ~]# nslookup geekflare.com


    Server: 172.16.179.2
    Address: 172.16.179.2#53
    Non-authoritative answer:
    Name: geekflare.com
    Address: 162.159.243.243
    Name: geekflare.com
    Address: 162.159.244.243
    [root@localhost ~]#

    netstat
    Netstat command allows you a simple way to review each of
    your network connections and open sockets.

    netstat with head output is very helpful while performing


    web server troubleshooting.
    [root@localhost ~]# netstat
    Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
    Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
    tcp 0 0 172.16.179.135:58856 mirror.comp.nus.ed:http TIME_WAIT
    tcp 0 0 172.16.179.135:34444 riksun.riken.go.jp:http ESTABLISHED
    tcp 0 0 172.16.179.135:37948 mirrors.isu.net.sa:http TIME_WAIT
    tcp 0 0 172.16.179.135:53128 ossm.utm.my:http TIME_WAIT
    tcp 0 0 172.16.179.135:59723 103.237.168.15:http TIME_WAIT
    tcp 0 0 172.16.179.135:60244 no-ptr.as20860.net:http TIME_WAIT

    scp
    scp allows you to secure copy files to and from another host
    in the network.

    Ex:

    scp $filename user@targethost:/$path

    w
    w prints a summary of the current activity on the system,
    including what each user is doing, and their processes.

    Also list the logged in users and system load average for the
    past 1, 5, and 15 minutes.

    [root@localhost ~]# w
    23:32:48 up 2:52, 2 users, load average: 0.51, 0.36, 0.19
    USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
    chandan :0 20:41 ?xdm? 7:07 0.13s gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-
    password]
    chandan pts/0 20:42 0.00s 0.23s 3.42s /usr/libexec/gnome-terminal-
    server
    [root@localhost ~]#

    nmap
    nmap is a one of the powerful commands, which checks
    the opened port on the server.

    Usage example:

    nmap $server_name

    Enable/Disable Network Interface


    You can enable or disable the network interface by using
    ifup/ifdown commands with ethernet interface parameter.

    To enable eth0
    #ifup eth0

    To disable eth0
    #ifdown eth0
    PROGRAMS

    You might also like