Category: Cisco Network Transport

Networking diagrams are crucial to the documentation required to operate, troubleshoot, and modify a network. Building a good network diagram requires a solid grasp of how the network is built, how it works, and what the diagram itself is supposed to accomplish. There are two broad categories of network diagrams: physical and logical. Figure 10-7…

Once network parameters are configured, you must verify the configuration is correct.  ping and traceroute are the two most widely used utilities. The network in Figure 4-16 will be used throughout this section to illustrate tools commonly used to verify connectivity and their use. Figure 4-16 Verifying Connectivity Ping The first application to use when…

Network Address Translation (NAT), described in Chapter 2, can sometimes make verifying the connection between a host and servers on the Internet difficult. Figure 4-19 illustrates. Figure 4-19 Finding Your Public IP Address In Figure 4-19, host A communicates with server D using its local interface address 192.0.2.100. Unknown to A, router B has NAT…

Like most other hosts, Apple Macintosh computers have a command line you can use to examine and configure network parameters. You can typically find an application called Terminal under Applications, Utilities in the Finder app. Once you have launched the terminal, you can display the network configuration using  ifconfig, as shown in Figure 4-10. Figure…