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Working with connections

Working with connections

From the course: CompTIA A+ Core 2 (220-1202) Cert Prep

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Working with connections

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- At any given moment, your computer is going to be connecting to all kinds of stuff, not only on your local area network, but also out to the internet. All of these connections are something we need as techs to be able to inspect and monitor. Now, there's a lot of different ways to do this, but the "well-knowledged" Tech will be using in Windows the netstat command. The netstat command basically goes, show me all the statistics for all the different types of connections. TCP or UDP. It'll show ICMP, but those go so quick, they tend not to keep track very quickly. So really, TCP and UDP connections on your particular system. So let's take a look at netstat. You just run netstat from a command prompt. N-E-T-S-T-A-T. Now, running it by itself is kind of interesting. A little slow. Now, what I want you to take a look at as this thing's loading up, it says, "What protocol?" This is a local address of my computer right here. This is my ephemeral port number, and this is who I'm connecting…

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