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Getting familiar with ICMP

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Getting familiar with ICMP

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- [Instructor] We're going to open a command prompt by going to run and typing CMD. One of the main protocols of TCPIP is internet control messaging protocol, and it's used by routers and hosts to communicate error information or updates to other routers, which is our hosts. An ICMP comes with a lot of different tools. Let's start out by typing ipconfig/all and we can see a list of all our IP information. This gives us our IP address, Subnet Mask, Gateway, and DNS servers. And it also shows us our physical address, which is the same as our MAC address or Mediate Access Control. And that's the information the switches use in order to find each other. And it also allows computers to find each other as well. It keeps a table of these physical addresses and puts them in memory so computers can locate each other much more quickly. If you go to change your DNS IP address, we can use IP config to flush the information in DNS in order to update it. So what we'll do is type forward slash…

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