Exploring some tips for Mac

- In this section,…I'd like to talk about a few tips…on using a Macintosh computer…on your small network.…First let's go through some of…our common network utilities.…We have "Ping" that works very…similarly on Macintosh as it…does on other platforms.…On the Mac platform,…"Ping" does run until you tell it to stop,…so I'll press control "C" to stop it.…Instead of "ipconfig",…we have an "ifconfig" on a Macintosh.…Here "ifconfig" has given me…lots of information on…my two Ethernet adapters,…and also on my firewire port.…

The one I'm most interested in is…"EN0" which is my first Ethernet port.…I'll need to scroll up a little bit to see that.…And here we go, "EN0".…Showing that I have an IP address of…192.168.1.5,…and also showing my MAC address.…It's actually labelled as an "ether" address,…but whenever we see this format…we know that is a MAC address.…We also have "traceroute".…We do need to spell out the full word,…"r", "o", "u", "t", "e".…

And that gives us a nice quick…trace route to google.com.…Next I'd like to look at configuring…