Question

You are the network administrator of a branch office of your company. the branch office network is part of a wan that covers most of the united states. the office has two windows 2000 servers, two unix servers, one windows nt server, 90 windows 98 clients, 40 windows 2000 professional clients, and five macintosh clients. users have been complaining that they are unable to access resources over the wan at the main headquarters. you suspect that one of the routers between your office and the main headquarters is not working properly. what tcp/ip utility can you use to see if a router is not working properly?

Answer 1

The answer is tracert

Tracert is used to show several details about the path that a packet takes from the PC to the destination specified. This command can be used for troubleshooting purposes to find out where a packet stopped on the network. It is able to show you the series of routers used between source and destination PCs. If a router is faulty or not functioning, this command can show you the last router it was able to successfully communicate to and thus, you will be able to find out which router is not working.