Ping and Traceroute
Information is passed used the internet through multiple routers. As Vahid & Lysecky state, “The Internet is the most popular (but not the only) computer network today” (3.5). The internet is a vast network of computers using routers and ISPs to pass along information. When reviewing the ping times and packets that were sent, I noticed each set of commands sent 4 packets each. In my examples, no packets were lost in the ping process (see notes below). When completing the traceroute process, I was able to get a much more detailed view of how the information was being processed from router to router. Also, there were failures along the way in the server that was traced to China. Due to the distance, I can see why information might time out, reach firewalls, or possible just hit disconnected servers or servers that are communicating too slow to really process the information. With the traceroute command it was easy to tell that my ping was failing in the middle of th...