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Glen D. Singh
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Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity author, educator and SecOps professional. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics and techniques, and enterprise networking. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in cybersecurity and many industry certifications from top awarding bodies such as EC-Council, Cisco, and Check Point. Glen loves teaching and mentoring others while sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books, which focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, network security, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.
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Performing troubleshooting procedures

After performing configurations on a device, it's good practice to execute the relevant show command to verify what you have done is correct and is working as expected. Throughout this book, we will learn about additional methods for designing and optimizing a network using Cisco devices, where you will learn about new configurations and troubleshooting commands to help you along the way.

There are two main tools that help us troubleshoot a network from the client side (PC):

  • Ping
  • Traceroute

Ping is simply used to test end-to-end connectivity between the devices on a network. This tool uses the ping ip address of target syntax. The following is an example of a successful connectivity test:

Figure 2.48 – Ping test on a Windows Command Prompt

However, the Cisco IOS does not provide an output similar to the one shown in the preceding output. The following are the symbols and their descriptions...

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Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity author, educator and SecOps professional. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics and techniques, and enterprise networking. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in cybersecurity and many industry certifications from top awarding bodies such as EC-Council, Cisco, and Check Point. Glen loves teaching and mentoring others while sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books, which focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, network security, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.
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