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Advanced Options
Launch Terminal
There may be times when you wish to open a Terminal window to run
command-line tools only accessible from a Linux shell. To access the
shell, click the button found at the top of the Control Panel named
Launch Terminal.
The
ifconfig
and
ping
commands are two popular Linux tools used for
diagnosing network connectivity and interface settings. The following
two sections describe their basic usage.