Note: The answers to the questions and the screen captures that justify your answers will both be assigned some points.
1.
Use the “date” command to display the time you are doing this assignment.
2.
Use a command-line tool to find find the IP address associated with the Ethernet or Wi-Fi port of your computer. What is this IP address?
3.
What is the MAC address?
4.
How was the IP address obtained?
5.
Test your connectivity to www.google.com. What is an IP address of the www.google.com server? (Use the appropriate command).
6.
How many hops (routing devices) separate your computer and the www.google.com server? (Use the appropriate command).
7.
Modify the address by changing the first octet (byte) to “15” and apply the change. Re-test connectivity to www.google.com. What happens to your connection? Why?
Question 2
Note: The answers to the questions and the screen captures that justify your answers will both be assigned some points.
1.
For how long has your system been up?
2.
How many cores does your machine have?
3.
How many processors does your machine have?
4.
What is the frequency of each processor?
5.
How much physical memory does your system have?
6.
How much of this memory is free?
7.
What is the size of your virtual memory or swap file?
8.
Run a text editor on your systems (ex. notepad, gedit). What is the process ID? Kill the text editor process.