Windows Network Commands

Question 1

ARP?

Answer 1

Address Resolution protocol.

Displays and modifies the internet to ethernet address(MAC) translation tables used by arp.

Question 2

what does “arp -s inet_addr eth_addr” does?

Answer 2

is used to add an entry to the ARP table

Question 3

what does “arp -d inet_addr” does?

Answer 3

it deletes entries from the arp table.

Question 4

what does “arp -a”

Answer 4

it displays current cache.

Question 5

What is ipconfig?

Answer 5

command used to display IP address configuration parameters on a Windows PC.

Question 6

what does “ipconfig /all” does?

Answer 6

give verbose information about the IP configurations.

Question 7

what does “ipconfig /renew” does?

Answer 7

renew the DHCP lease for IP 4

Question 8

what does “ipconfig /release” does?

Answer 8

release the lease of an IP address for IP 4

Question 9

what does “ipconfig /renew6” does?

Answer 9

renew the DHCP lease for IP 6

Question 10

what does “ipconfig /relese6” does?

Answer 10

release the lease of an IP address for IP 6

Question 11

what does “ipconfig /flushdns” does?

Answer 11

purges the DNS resolver cache

Question 12

what does “ipconfig /displaydns” does?

Answer 12

display the cache for DNS

Question 13

what does “ipconfig /registerdns” does?

Answer 13

refresh all DHCP leases and re-registers DNS names

Question 14

what does “ipconfig /setclassid” does?

Answer 14

modifies the dhcp clss id

Question 15

What is nbtstat?

Answer 15

displays NetBIOS information for IP-based networks

Question 16

what does “nbtstat -a” does?

Answer 16

allows you to see netbios based of a name

Question 17

what does “nbtstat -A” does?

Answer 17

allows you to see netbios based of IP address

Question 18

what does “nbtstat -c” does?

Answer 18

display the content of the netbios ache along with the IP address

Question 19

what does “nbtstat -n” does?

Answer 19

displays the net bios names that have been registered by an application.

Question 20

what does “nbtstat -r” does?

Answer 20

shows the statistical netbios information such as the number of netbios names resolved by boradcasting and the nubmer of netbios names resolved by the WINS server.

Question 21

what does “nbtstat -R” does?

Answer 21

this commands purges all cache and reloads entries from PC LMHOST file.

Question 22

what does “nbtstat -S” does?

Answer 22

this option provides a listing of the netbios session table, along with the IP addresses of the listed netbios names

Question 23

what is netstat?

Answer 23

used to display various information about IP-based connections on a PC.

Question 24

What does “netstat -a” does?

Answer 24

Displays all TCP & UDP connections and ports

Question 25

What does "netstat -b" does?

Answer 25

displays the names of the programs that opened the connections.

Question 26

What does "netstat -e" does?

Answer 26

This option shows statistical information for an interfaces IP traffic such as the number of bytes sent and received.

Question 27

What does "netstat -f" does?

Answer 27

This option displays fully qualified domain names of destination addresses appearing in ta listing of active sessions.

Question 28

What does "netstat -p" does?

Answer 28

displays connection based on protocol given.

Question 29

What does "netstat -r" does?

Answer 29

displays the route table. this is the same information from route print

Question 30

What does "netstat -s" does?

Answer 30

Is statistical information.

Question 31

nslookup

Answer 31

Is used to query domain name servers. it is used to resolve domain names to IP address.

Question 32

ping

Answer 32

Used to check ip connectivity between two devices. used ICMP which is a level 4 protocol.

Question 33

What does ping -t " does?

Answer 33

send pings until you hit control c

Question 34

What does ping -n " does?

Answer 34

the number of pings to send

Question 35

What does ping -f " does?

Answer 35

sets the don't fragment bit in a packet header. If a packet tries to cross router that attempts to fragment the packet the packet is dropped and ICMP error message is returned.

Question 36

What does ping -i " does?

Answer 36

sets the TTL value in the packet header

Question 37

What does ping -S " does?

Answer 37

allows you to specify which IP to use.

Question 38

route

Answer 38

Displays the current IP routing table. You could also add and delete from the table.

Question 39

what does "route -f" does?

Answer 39

clears gateway entries from the routing table

Question 40

what does "route -p" does

Answer 40

used with an app it will persist the reboot.

Question 41

what are the commands for route

Answer 41

add change PRINT DELETE

Question 42

what is the formate of route command

Answer 42

route -f -p (command) [destination] [netmask] [gateway] [metric] [interface]

Question 43

tracert

Answer 43

ping every router hop for the source to the destination and reports the round-trip time for each hop.

Question 44

pathping

Answer 44

combines ping and tracers over period of time

Question 45

what does "path ping -g" do?

Answer 45

Loose source route along host-list

Question 46

what does "path ping -h" do?

Answer 46

maximum number of hops to search

Question 47

what does "path ping -i" do?

Answer 47

specify the source address

Question 48

what does "path ping -n" do?

Answer 48

do not resolve addresses to hostname

Question 49

what does "path ping -p" do?

Answer 49

wait a period of time

Question 50

what does "path ping -q" do?

Answer 50

number of queries per hop

Question 51

what does "path ping -w" do?

Answer 51

wait timeout for each reply

Question 52

what does "path ping -4" do?

Answer 52

force ipv4

Question 53

what does "path ping -6" do?

Answer 53

force ipv6

Question 54

netsh

Answer 54

allows you to add or modify the network configurations of a computer that is currently running.

Question 55

hostname

Answer 55

get the current host name

Question 56

getmac

Answer 56

get the mac address