Effective Network Diagnostics with the ping and traceroute Commands

Ping and traceroute are two commonly used commands in network diagnostics

Ping is a simple utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network

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Ping sends a series of echo requests to the target host and waits for replies to confirm that the host is reachable

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The syntax of ping command is: ping

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The ping command has several options that can modify its behavior

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The traceroute command is used to trace the route that packets take from the local host to a remote host

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Traceroute sends packets with increasing TTL (time-to-live) values.

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The syntax of traceroute command is: traceroute

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Advanced Linux file manipulation with the find command

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