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Welcome to “Networking Commands.

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After watching this video, you will be able to:
Examine your network configuration
Evaluate the stability of a URL connection, and
Identify and retrieve data from a URL
The “host name” command is used to get or set the “host name” and other information
which uniquely identifies your computer. Entering the “host name” command without
any options
returns the host name of your machine. Which in this example is “my Linux machine
dot
local.” The “dot local” suffix appears in the host name if your machine has “local
domains” set. To drop the domain suffix, you can include the “minus S” option.
If you use the “minus i” option, hostname will provide the IP address of the
hostname.
The ifconfig command, which stands for Interface configuration, displays
information regarding
all your device’s communication devices. If you enter ”if config” with no options.
You get a lot of information – including the IP address, MAC addresses, and the
hardware
specifications of your communication devices. A lot of this information is beyond
the scope
of this course and would be more useful for system administrators.
You can also specify a specific device you want ifconfig to inspect, such as an
ethernet
adapter called ”eth0”. Entering “ifconfig eeth zero” returns information about your
ethernet adapter, such as its internet address, the number of packets received,
including
counts of errors and dropped packets, the same metrics applied to transmitted
packets,
and the total amount of data received and transmitted.
You can use the “ping” command to test connectivity to a host or IP address. “ping”
sends packets known as ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) requests to the
server,
listens for a response, and prints a result. For example, by entering “ping google
dot
com,” “ping” returns a line of info for each successful response to an echo request
and continues until you abort with “control C.” And after ping aborts, it prints
summary
statistics for the ping results. For each echo request, ping reports useful
information,
including The IP address of the given URL,” one four two dot two five one dot four
one
dot six-eight,” and the total round-trip time in milliseconds.
The provided statistics at the end include: how many packets were transmitted and
received,
the percentage of packets dropped, and the minimum, average, maximum, and standard
deviation
of the round-trip times in milliseconds.
If you would like the ping command to return a set number of ping results, you can
use
the “minus C” option: Entering “ping minus c five google dot com” returns the
five ping results, aborts, and then prints the same statistics it would print
without
the “minus C” option.
The “curl” command is a powerful tool that enables you to transfer data to and
from URLs and supports many different protocols. Entering “curl www dot google dot
com” returns
the entire HTML content of the landing page at www.google.com, using the default “H
T T P” protocol. You can see, for example, the path to a “P N G” file for the
Google
“G” logo. You can render the logo by appending its path to “google dot com” in your
browser.
You can even get Curl to write the contents of a URL to a local file. This is done
using
the “minus o” option. For example, you can enter “curl www dot google dot
com” together
with the ”minus o” option and a file name such as “google dot text.” You can then
view the contents of google.txt using the head command and verify that the file
contents
indeed match the previous output.
Similar to Curl, the “w get” command is used to retrieve files located at a URL.
wget
is like Curl in that it can retrieve a file located at a URL or the HTML code for a
web
page, but it is more specialized in its protocol support and has recursive
downloading capabilities.
This is useful when a URL might point to a folder that contains several files. Here
you
use wget to download a single test file called “I S O underscore eight eight five
nine-dash
one dot text,” which is hosted by w3.org. wget returns information while it is
downloading,
such as: “resolving and connecting” to the target server, “HTTP request sent,
awaiting
a response,” and “saving the file,” which it automatically names for you to
the current directory.
For reference, here is what your browser shows you when viewing looking at the data
located
at the URL. It’s a simple text file.
By entering “head minus twelve I S O underscore eight eight five nine-dash one dot
text,”
you see the first twelve lines of the contents of the downloaded file. As expected,
the file
contains the exact same data that you just saw on the previous slide.
In this video, you learned that:
The “host name” command is used to get or set the “host name”.
The ifconfig command displays information regarding all your device’s communication
devices.
You can use the “ping” command to test connectivity to a host or IP address.
The “curl” command enables you to transfer data to and from URLs.
The “w get” command is used to retrieve files located at a URL.

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