Question

Which TCP/IP utility gives you the following output?

A. 2 14 ms <10 ms 14 ms Loopback0.GWI.SLT1.ALTER.NET [137.39.2.123]
B. 3 14 ms <10 ms 13 ms 122.at-6-0-0.XR1.SLT4.ALTER.NET [152.63.91.86]
C. 4 <10 ms 14 ms <10 ms 0.so-0-1-0.TL1.SLT4.ALTER.NET [152.63.1.210]
D. 5 41 ms 41 ms 41 ms 0.so-7-0-0.TL1.PQR3.ALTER.NET [152.63.32.41]
E. 6 42 ms 41 ms 41 ms 0.so.6-0-0.XL1.SEA1.ALTER.NET [152.63.38.82]
F. 7 41 ms 41 ms 41 ms PQS6-0.GW11.SEA1.ALTER.NET [152.63.107.17]

Answer 1

The TCP/IP utility described is 'tracert' on Windows or 'traceroute' on Unix/Linux, which traces the route taken by packets across a network and shows the latency to each network point.

Step-by-step explanation:

The TCP/IP utility that produces the output you've provided is the tracert command on Windows or traceroute on Unix/Linux systems. These tools are used to determine the route taken by packets across an IP network. The output lists each hop along the route to the destination network and provides three round-trip times for each hop. These values are indicative of the latency between the computer executing the command and the respective network points. The utility traces the path by sending out packets with incrementally increasing Time to Live (TTL) values; as each hop decrements the TTL and it reaches zero, that network point returns an error, which is captured by the utility and displayed in the output.