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Testing TCP/IP functionality

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Testing TCP/IP functionality

There are several testing utilities available in the Microsoft TCP/IP application suite. Examples of the output of two Windows 95 TCP/IP utilities, Ping.exe and Winipcfg.exe, are included below. On Windows NT/2000/XP, the equivalent utilities are Ping.exe and Ipconfig.exe.

The Ping.exe utility shows TCP/IP networking response and can be used to show connectivity between computers. For a mapped network volume connection, a client can ping the server and vice versa to check that they have basic connectivity at any time.

Pinging a local host shows basic local TCP/IP functionality. The address used in the following example identifies the local host on the network.

Pinging a local host

In a Windows DOS prompt dialog box on a Windows 95 computer with a computer name Win95PC1, the following command is entered:

c:\> ping LocalHost

This gives the following results:

Pinging Win95PC1 [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128

This test indicates that the TCP/IP stack is installed and operating.

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