Summary
Troubleshooting is an essential part of network operations. The best kind of troubleshooting is, of course, anticipating problems before they occur, but in spite of all your efforts, you’ll eventually need to search down a problem that is stopping or slowing your network. This chapter looked at general troubleshooting strategies and at solutions for each of the problem areas identified by Microsoft in the Networking Essentials test objectives, as follows:
- Problems with communication components
- Connectivity problems
- Broadcast storms
- Network performance problems
This chapter also looked at online and offline sources of troubleshooting information.