Moving from Windows to Linux? Here are the networking commands to use instead—plus a WSL bonus.

I'm trying to figure out why I can't ping several machines by name. The nameservers in the following example, are running Windows 2008 R2. The nfs servers are running Ubuntu Karmic. NFS1 and NFS2 are ...

In previous articles we’ve built some useful servers. But this time let’s take a look at one of the most powerful network troubleshooting tools ever written: the mighty “ping” command. You may have ...

In the previous lesson, we reviewed the ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol). It’s the basis for the applications ping and traceroute. If you recall from that lesson, when you ping an address with ...

Most businesses connect together multiple workstations to a single network using a switch or a router with an integrated switch; the router then assigns an IP address to each connected device. The IP ...