The Best Damn Windows Server 2003 Book Period- P92:The latest incarnation of Microsoft’s server product,Windows Server 2003, brings many new features and improvements that make the network administrator’s job chapter will briefly summarize what’s new in 2003 and introduce you to the four members of the Windows Server 2003 family: the Web Edition, the Standard Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the Datacenter Edition. | 886 Chapter 25 Planning Implementing Maintaining Routing and Remote Access The ipconfig command when used with the all switch ipconfig all provides information about existing network interfaces both real and virtual. Figure shows the output from the ipconfig command when used with the all switch. Figure Ipconfig Command Display The netsh command utility was introduced with Windows 2000. It provides scripting display and modification capabilities for virtually every aspect of Windows Server 2003 networking. Figure displays a list of available options from the netsh command line netsh command has been expanded with additional helper files and so has more functionality in its Windows Server 2003 version for example the IPSec context . Figure Netsh Command Line Options Planning Implementing Maintaining Routing and Remote Access Chapter 25 887 Several of the netsh commands typically are used more from the server but netsh provides functions for client side interaction as well. The nslookup command is used to troubleshoot and test DNS information for client systems. When used with a computer name or FQDN within an Active Directory environment nslookup can illustrate DNS name resolution mappings as well as general DNS information. Figure illustrates the output from a typical nslookup command. Figure Using the Nslookup Command The ping command is used to test general network layer connectivity between hosts. Several switches are available for use with the ping command. Ping sends an ICMP echo request to the host that the ping command was issued host if available will reply with an ICMP reply to the ping issued to the initiating system. From the initiating system a successful ping will list the responses with TTL times displayed next to each request. Figure displays one successful ping command and one failed ping command. Figure Using the Ping Command 888 Chapter 25 Planning Implementing Maintaining .
