Network Utilities OS Design Development (Windows CE 5.0)

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09/14/2012

The Network Utilities feature for Microsoft® Windows® 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.