Part $1$: Networking Topology Analysis

What are the following characteristics of your current network connection?

$$ Network Adapter Type

$$ Network Interface Name in Linux

$$ ip address

$$ subnet mask

$$ default route

What is the ip address of your Host Machine? $($Machine running Virtual Box, not the Linux partition $-$ i$.$e$.$ Windows$).$

Is the ip address of the host machine on the same subnet as the virtual host? Why or why not?

Think of a server on the internet somewhere $($i$.$e$.$ google.com$).$ Ping the server and ctrl$-$c after $10$ or so samples$).$ What was the average round trip time.

Open a second window. From one window, ping the server on the internet again. From the second window, bring down the network interface using the $$ifconfig$$ command. Watch the ping output. After several samples, bring up the interface using the $$ifconfig$$ command. Control$-$C out of the ping commands after watching it for several samples once the interface is up again. Record and comments on the statistics $($RTT and Packet Loss$).$

Can you ping the ip address of the host machine?

Can you ping the ip address of the default route? What machine is responding when pinging the default route?

Open a $$command window$($ on Windows$)$ or $($Terminal on Mac$)$ in your host machine. Can you ping the ip address of your linux virtual host?

How do you view the routing table? What is represented by the rows in the routing table?