Centennial College
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY AND APPLIED SCIENCE
Information and Communication Engineering Technology
ETEC224 – SYSTEM INTEGRATION
Lab 1 –Basic Windows Networking Commands
STUDENT NAME:
STUDENT ID:
Lab Objective:
Use the Windows Command Prompt to run basic commands
Explore network configuration using Windows CLI Commands
Use ping, ipconfig, tracert, nslookup, arp, netstat
Troubleshoot Windows network configuration
Procedure:
1. Login to the Windows workstations in the lab.
2. From the Windows Start Menu, open a new Windows Command Prompt by running the
cmd command.
3. To check your IP address information, at the command prompt run the following
command> ipconfig
4. From the results, record the following information:
a) IPv4 Address:
b) Subnet Mask:
c) Default Gateway:
5. What is the class of this IP address?
6. Based on this configuration, what is the maximum number of hosts (computers) that can
be a part of this network? Explain you answer.
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7. To find out more information about the ipconfig command, you can run it with the /?
option to display the possible list of commands. At the command prompt, type the
following command> ipconfig /?
8. In the table below, record what each of the indicated command does?
Ipconfig /all
Ipconfig /release
Ipconfig /flushdns
Ipconfig /renew
9. At the command prompt, run the following command> ipconfig /all
10. Base on the output from the command of step 9, answer the following questions for the
Ethernet adapter:
a) What is the Physical (MAC) Address?
b) Is DHCP enabled? If yes, what is the DHCP server IP address?
c) What are the IP address of the DNS servers?
11. Using the ping command, you can test your network for basic connectivity. At the
command prompt, run the following command> ping 127.0.0.1
12. Record the output from step 11.
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13. Using the ping command, test the connectivity to your computers default gateway.
What command did you type?
14. Using the ping command, test the connectivity to another IP address (any) within
your subnet. What command did you type?
15. Now try using the ping command to test the connectivity to www.amazon.ca. ping is
able to test connections based on domain names (e.g. www.amazon.ca) rather than IP
addresses.
At the command prompt, type the following command> ping www.amazon.ca
16. What is the IP address of www.amazon.ca?
17. How long on average is a round trip ping to amazon?
18. When the ping command is used with a domain name instead of an IP address, another
process call domain name resolution or DNS lookup must occur first. This is the
process of taking a textual name (e.g. www.amazon.ca) and looking up the
corresponding IP address.
The nslookup command can be used to perform the DNS lookup without performing the
actual ping as was done in step 15. At the command prompt, type the following
command> nslookup www.centennialcollege.ca
Record the IP address for www.centennialcollege.ca in the space below.
19. The arp command can be used to display the ARP Table. This table is a listing of IP
addresses and their corresponding physical MAC address. At the command prompt, run
the following command> arp -a
20. Record the first 3 lines of the output from the previous step in the space below.
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21. The data that you send over the internet typically would pass through many different
server/hosts before arriving at the destination. The tracert (short for “trace route”) can
be used to trace the route taken from your computer to an indicated destination.
At the command prompt, type the following command> tracert google.ca
Record the first 4 steps of the trace in the space below:
22. The netstat command can be used to display. At the command prompt, type the
following command to get a list of netstat options> netstat /?
23. In the table below, record what each of the following netstat options do:
-a
-b
-q
-o
24. Open a web browser and visit any webpage you like.
25. What netstat command option would you use to show the TCP/IP connection and port
number used to connect to your webpage?
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