Homework question

[brentg33]

i know this is an interesting subject line, however, i am taking a cybercrime class and the book is asking me to do a tracert from the DOS prompt....well that isnt possible, but what is the OS X equivalent? and how do i go about doing it

thanks
brent

 

[pit29]

I believe you can use the Network Utility (in the Utility folder) to do that. There must also be a way to do the same thing using Terminal, but I don't know about that.

 

[sammich]

Open up /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app

traceroute is the command you're looking for

 

[brentg33]

thanks
i found lots of stuff in the network utility, how about ipconfig?

 

[sammich]

try ipconfig in terminal

Whatever Windows command line does, Unix does better. If there is a command you want type the windows command and then 'unix' into google. Like 'ipconfig unix'.