Specifications

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2.1.2 Diagnostics
If you are experiencing difficulty connecting to servers on certain segments of your LAN, then you may want to use the
ping command to verify you are reaching specific servers and/or gateways on the subnet in question. To use ping, select
the Diagnostics tab from the Network Tools window. In the “Host Address” field, type in the IP address or website you
want to test against and then press the Ping button. If there is an error in the delivery to the destination, the ping
command displays an error message. Otherwise, replies will continuously display for each packet successfully sent and
received. Press the Stop button to terminate the ping loop.
2.3 Launch Terminal
There may be times when you wish to open a Terminal window to run command-line tools only accessible from a Linux
shell. To access the shell, click the button found at the top of the Control Panel named, Launch Terminal.
The ifconfig and ping commands are two popular Linux tools used for diagnosing network connectivity and interface
settings. The following two sections describe their basic usage.
2.3.1 ifconfig: Viewing Current Network Interface Settings
Type “/sbin/ifconfig“ and press Enter to display the status of the currently active network interfaces.
The value of inet addr, in the eth0 group of statistics, is the currently assigned IP Address of your DeTOS terminal. If