Hardware Tools & Symptoms
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Terms in this set
- Cable Tester A hardware tool that verifies whether a cable's wires are correctly connected and continuous.
- Toner Probe A two-piece tool that sends a tone on a wire so a probe can trace and locate that cable.
- Protocol Analyzer Software that captures and inspects packets to diagnose traffic and protocol problems.
- Loopback Address The address 127.0.0.1 (or ::1) used to test a host's own TCP/IP stack.
- APIPA Automatic Private IP Addressing — a 169.254.x.x address a host assigns itself when no DHCP server responds.