The headquarters of ABC threads, which is a large Textile Company located in Dal
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The headquarters of ABC threads, which is a large Textile Company located in Dallas, Texas has its network administrator, based in Houston. Mac is the network administrator and was conducting a routine maintenance on the network. While conducting the maintenance, Mac came across a ticket opened by an employee. On further investigation Mac figured out that the complaint was that the employee was facing trouble in connecting to the network. As the network administrator, Mac then began a trace to capture the communications from the employee (client IP host) that cannot connect to the rest of the company network or on the other side of the local router. Additionally, the employee can communicate with all the other local systems w
What kind of information would a network administrator look for in the trace file that was captured from the IP Host to the local router?
Explanation / Answer
Every packet in network being processed by a TCP/IP host has a source and destinatin ip addresswhile receving each packet,the ip protpcal examines the destination address of packet and after that it compares it with entries in its local routing table, and then desides what to do.Generally the major connectivity issues involve problem with routing table entries.
All this tracing process will be done by the traceroute command.
Example Traceroute command:
% traceroute -ahost-name
To perform the traceroute on mac:
Click on Hard Drive.
Open Applications.
Open Utilities.
Click on Terminal to open the command prompt.
Once you have your Terminal box open, type in the following but be sure to replace example.com with your domain name.
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