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what is port forwarding now maybe you've heard about it but you weren't exactly sure what it was or how it works so basically port forwarding allows computers over the Internet to connect to a specific computer or service within a private network it's basically making your computer accessible over the Internet even though you're behind a router so for example let's say a friend of yours at their home wants to remotely control your computer at your home using a service such as remote desktop connection now remote desktop connection is a service built into Microsoft Windows that enables you to connect to another computer running Microsoft Windows and then once you're connected to the remote computer you can use that computers programs and files just as if you were sitting in front of it so now your friend is ready to connect to your computer so we starts up the remote desktop connection and sends the request to your public IP address with a specific port number no...

a lesson on networking command-line tools and I will tell you that in this lesson well we're gonna do just that we are going to go through a list of command-line tools and make sure that you understand what they do and then I'll even go in and demonstrate some of them for you so the first couple of commands that I want to go over with you are very similar in nature not only are they named similarly but the functionality is pretty much the same these two commands are IP config and then I F config now both are used to view tcp/ip configuration the difference is IP config is for the Windows operating system whereas ifconfig you will find in things like Unix Linux and Macintosh we will take a look at the IP config utility in just a few minutes now this next utility I will tell you is one that is the most powerful yet most simplistic utility out there and the name of this utility is ping okay it's just simply the ping command and this is something that many people have heard o...