In the previous lesson, we reviewed the ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol). It’s the basis for the applications ping and traceroute. If you recall from that lesson, when you ping an address with ...

Moving from Windows to Linux? Here are the networking commands to use instead—plus a WSL bonus.

“Ping,” a command that was designed – and used for many years – to confirm communication with and/or round-trip latency to an IP address or URL, has become much less useful. And this is really a shame ...

On the Internet, where routers, switches, computers, and other devices are intricately intertwined, packets must pass through many routers before they can reach the destination server. However, if a ...