Troubleshooting Tools and Strategies

Windows 2000 provides a large collection of networking client tools to optimize and troubleshoot network performance. Several of the most useful tools, shown in Table 31.21, are discussed in this section.

Table 31.21 Networking Troubleshooting Tools

Tool

Overview

Location

Network Diagnostics (Netdiag.exe)

Helps isolate networking and connectivity problems by performing a series of tests to determine the state of your network client and whether it is functional.

Support Tools on the Windows 2000 operating system CD

IP Configuration (Ipconfig.exe)

Displays the current configuration of the installed IP stack on a networked computer using TCP/IP.

%systemroot%\System32

NetBT Statistics (Nbtstat.exe)

Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP connections using NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT), including NetBIOS name resolution to IP addresses.

%systemroot%\System32

Path Ping (Pathping.exe)

A route tracing tool that sends packets to each router, and then computes results based on the packets returned from each hop.

%systemroot%\System32

IP Security Monitor (Ipsecmon.exe)

Confirms whether your secured communications are successful by displaying the active security associations on local or remote computers.

%systemroot%\System32