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Network Utilities OS Design Development (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)

1/6/2010

The Network Utilities feature for Windows Embedded CE provides several tools that you can use to troubleshoot network connections.

OS Design Information

The following table shows operating system design information for Network Utilities.

Concepts Description

Dependencies

TCP/IP, Winsock Support, Winsock, FormatMessage API, and Full C Runtime

Hardware considerations

None

Modules and Components

The following table shows the components and modules that implement Network Utilities.

Item Module Component

Supports the diagnostic ipconfig command that displays all of the current TCP/IP network-configuration values.

ipconfig

None

Command line utility that configures the IPv6 protocol and enables user to query and configure interfaces, addresses, caches, and routes.

ipv6tun

None

Sample NDIS configuration utility.

Ndisconfig

None

Network statistics utility.

netstat

None

Supports the Ping network command utility.

ping

None

Sample application that is used to make RAS telephone book entries.

rasentry

None

Sample RAS dialing program.

rasial

None

Command-line tool that sends Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) version 6 or ICMP Echo Request messages to produce command-line report information about each router that is crossed and the roundtrip time for each hop.

tracert

None

Command-line tool that configures 6to4 and ISATAP tunneling

ipv6tun

None

Network Utilities Implementation Considerations

You can include Network Utilities in your OS design by choosing the Catalog item from the Catalog. Choosing this feature sets the appropriate Sysgen variable for enabling the feature.

The following table shows the Sysgen variable that enables the Network Utilities listed.

Sysgen variable Functionality

SYSGEN_NETUTILS

When this variable is set, Network Utilities are included in the run-time image.

For more information, see Network Utilities.

See Also

Reference

Netstat
Tracert

Concepts

IPConfig
Ping
Route
TCP/IP Protocol Suite

Other Resources

Network Utilities
Internet Protocol Version 6