Report on Computer Network Tools

Introduction of Computer Network Tools

            The computer network is an effective way in which many protocols are used to share resources from one computer to another computer. The report is based on the computer network, its related problems as well as the related computer network tools. There can be several types of problems of the computer network which can be dangerous or harmful for the computer networks as well as the data transferring protocols. Several types of computing network tools are also available to resolve the problems as well as they can make the computer network more strong, secure as well as and fast. The tools which are discussed in this document are very important for the network distributions as well as any company’s network. Every business organization or any individual feel needs to communicate with each other and sending or receiving the data of information, the network systems will be implemented. Every user can easily communicate with each other by connecting their computers or any other networking device. The tools which are used in the computer network, are very effective that makes the computer network more secure as well as more efficient speed wise as well as those tools are also effective to resolve the major problem occurring into the computer network. So, the main focus of the report is to provide brief information about the tools of computer networks.

What is a computer network?

            The computer network is basically the connected computer and computing devices connected each other through the internet to resources as well as information. There are several types of computer networks present in the world that are used to connect multiple computers as well as other computing devices with the network but the computer network is discussed in this document. The computer network works on the nodes which are the computer connected to the network using inter or with the use of cables. The computer will be known as networked when it will be connected with the computer network and then it will be able to exchange the information with other connected nodes or the computers with the help of the internet or the networking protocols. The computer network is supporting several kinds of network applications to get access to the worldwide web, audios, videos, printers, scanners, servers as well as other networking application. Nowadays, the effective and very popular network application is the instant messaging application which is used to send and receive the messages as well as emails or multimedia resources by connecting the computing device to the network (Huang, et al., 2003).

Problems in computer networks?

            The computer network is an effective protocol to connect one computer to other computers or computing devices but sometimes serious and vulnerable problems always present in the network. These problems can make computing devices as well as the networks vulnerable that is often annoying. Computer networks are a very complicated system that contains several types of components, as well as multiple users, are using the networking systems on a daily basis. The computing network systems may provide several types of benefits to the users but they may also raise different types of problems or issues that can be very dangerous and vulnerable or harmful for the computers and the users of the network. furthermore, the problems of issues are the danger for the data of the users or the organizations that can destroy the security of the network as well as those issues invite the attackers to attack the computer network as well as the attack on the user computer to steal or damage their confidential information saved in the servers or in the computers (Jain, 1998). The most notable problems related to the computer networks are listed and discussed in the below section.

·         IP conflicts or Duplicate IP Address of Computer Network Tools

It is another common issue faced by users on the network as well as they will get the error message which says that the IP addresses are in use already. But logically one IP address cannot be assigned to another computer or cannot be assigned to two or more computers. It may have some notable reasons which are: the network’s system administrator may assign the same static IP address to two computers on the local area network, DHCP may also allow the same dynamic address on multiple computers. These are some basic reasons that tell why IP address conflicts occur (Baraković & Skorin-Kapov, 2013).

·         Computer Viruses of Computer Network Tools

The computer viruses are the scripts written by some attackers to attack the network as well as connected computers with that network. Computer networks can be dangerous as well as very effective for network security and they can also disable the network of the computer. They can be several types of reasons for the computer viruses but one thing will be common in all causes which is the attack and make the networked computer vulnerable to get or steal the confidential information. Furthermore, they also have several kinds of sources such as online ads, malicious scripts embedded in emails and attachments, as well as social media links.

·         Slow performance of Computer Network Tools

In this situation, the computer application connected to the network is working slowly as well as it can also slow down business productivity and performance. It is the most common problem network issue that businesses or companies have to fight with the slow slower apps. It mostly happens when the computer connects to the network or the use of heavy bandwidth usage that creates the bottleneck issue or sometimes deadlock (Saponara & Bacchillone, 2012).

·         Exhaustion of IP Address of Computer Network Tools

In this problem, the operating system installed in the computer sends an email to the computer user having information that the IP addresses are not received from the DHCP server.

These are some major problems in the computer network which every computer user or the organization face. These can be minor problems or serious but these can be easily handled by applying some techniques.   

Tools used in Computer network

            There are several kinds of network tools that are very effective to handle as well as manage the complete network. The tools which are discussed in the below section, are very helpful to monitor the computers connected with the single network, analysis of the network traffic, services, as well as the protocols and ports on the network. The significant tools are available in this document below.

The tools which are given below used in several ways to remove ambiguities as well as resole several kinds of errors from the network.

Route Utility of Computer Network Tools

            The route utility is a very effective tool that is installed already in the operating system of computing. The tool is used to show the routing table’s current status on the host. But route utility use is limited in shared conditions in which the host computer will have only one IP address along with the single gateway. Furthermore, it is dynamic in different conditions where multiple gateways, as well as IP addresses, are available (Galán, Fernández, Ruiz, Walid, & Miguel, 2004).

Pathping / mtr of Computer Network Tools

            The utilities of pathping / mtr were developed to get the benefits of both traceroute or tracert and ping commands. The tools traceroute and ping takes the information and functionality which can be attained from both tool’s types. Furthermore, the path characteristics of the more detailed single picture are provided from a particular host computer to a particular destination.

Ping testing or Speed testing of Computer Network Tools

            The pingtest.net and speedtest.net are online website tools that are very effective as well as used to identify the internet connection quality as well as the available internet bandwidth of the particular network or network provider. The use of these tools is very easy that can be checked or read on both of the websites. The ability or capability to recognize the bandwidth amount is provided on the speedtest.net website which is available to the specific network provider on a particular point in a specific time. furthermore, the tool is very effective to calculate the download speed as well as uploading speed of the network in a specific time from the local to the remote host. In simple words, the speedtest.net is the tool that is used to check as well as to measure the speed of the uploading and downloading of the network and is also used to measure how much time the network can take for uploading or downloading the files from the network. The main purpose of using this tool is to measure or check whether the network is providing exact speed that is offering by the host in the specific amount or against the dues.

            On the other hand, the pingtest.net website tool is also an effective tool that is used to check the network connection quality through calculating the amounts of jitter as well as response times of pings in a short time. After completing the process to determine the pings and jitter amount, the user will have the information of pings and jitters which can be used to identify the probability of how effective the network is to deal or handle the particular traffic in the bandwidth. In simple words, the pingtest.net website tool provides the facility to users to determine the strength of the network that is offered by the network provider as well as to check how effectively it can handle as well as manage the traffic such as gaming or voice over internet protocol (VoIP).

IP and Subnet Calculator of Computer Network Tools

            The IP and subnet calculator is one of the most popular as well as an effective calculator that is effectively used by many network engineers. The IP calculator and subnet calculator tool may also be used for insecure selection of the correct IP address as well as the network engineers can configure the correct IP addresses. This kind of network tool is mostly used by senior-level network engineers because they have much more experience as well as they can use such kind of tools to collect a large amount of information on the basis of their experience. Many of the junior network engineers are also using this networking tool to gather information but they experienced network engineers are more effective to use Subnet and IP Calculator tools. Furthermore, the two most used related tools are more commonly used free calculators for IP including SolarWinds advanced subnet calculators as well as Wildpackets (Bitcricket) network calculators. These tools are very effective as well as every efficient to calculate the subnet and IP calculator to calculate the total IP addresses as well as subnet masks from the network (Al-Holou, Booth, & Yaprak, 2000).

PuTTY/Tera Term of Computer Network Tools

            When connecting to the distinctive types of equipment, the talnet, serial client as well as SSH is needed at the time of the required bother of the Tera Term as well as Putty network. furthermore, the puTTY and Tera term programs are also able to give such kind of facilities into the network. Such kind of tools is mostly used to select the connection location which handles the network ports along with the selection of the type of network connection such as Talnet, SSH, Raw as well as Serial. the user can easily select the network as well as can configure the network to make the experience of using network better.

Nslookup of Computer Network Tools

            Nslookup is also an effective tool for the network as well as it can also be handled by opening command prompt window or terminal windows of the operating system. The tool is very effective to resolve the common network issues or errors around issues with the resolution issues of DNS. The DNS is commonly used by everyone to resolve as well as manage or alter the names of the known domains by using the internet connections for the unknown IP addresses commonly. It uses most of the functionality the people to go away at the time of the inability of this network as there is no technique to resolve the information. To look up, the particular IP address or addresses, the utility of Nslookup can also be utilized with the domain name. there is a DNS problem if the utility of Nslookup is not able to resolve such data. To determine the problems, the utility of Nslookup is also able to DNS servers of query-specific along with the simple lookup with the default DNS servers which were also configured on the host network (Maximov, Sokolovsky, & Gavrilov, 2017).

Conclusion of Computer Network Tools

            It is concluded that the computer network is an effective protocol to connect one computer to other computers or computing devices but sometimes serious and vulnerable problems always present in the network. Furthermore, the problems of issues are the danger for the data of the users or the organizations that can destroy the security of the network as well as those issues invite the attackers to attack the computer network. There are several kinds of network tools that are very effective to handle as well as manage the complete network. The route utility is a very effective tool that is installed already in the operating system of computing. The tools traceroute and ping takes the information and functionality which can be attained from both tool’s types. The pingtest.net and speedtest.net are online website tools that are very effective as well as used to identify the internet connection quality as well as the available internet bandwidth of the particular network or network provider. The pingtest.net website tool provides the facility to users to determine the strength of the network that is offered by the network provider as well as to check how effectively it can handle as well as manage the traffic. The IP calculator and subnet calculator tool may also be used for insecure selection of the correct IP address as well as the network engineers can configure the correct IP addresses. The DNS is commonly used by everyone to resolve as well as manage or alter the names of the known domains by using the internet connections for the unknown IP addresses commonly.

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