netFiber 9, MikroTik's new powerful outdoor switch, which comes complete with 5 SFP, 4 SFP+, and 1 Gigabit Ethernet port, enjoys a capable ARM v7 CPU, 256 MB of RAM, and a top-tier Marvell switch-chip that handle the heaviest loads. This outdoor hardware covers distances north of 100 meters and is the perfect companion for fiber optic networks.

In the 12th session of our free online MTCNA tutorials, we'll be taking a look at the second commonly-used troubleshooting and network diagnostic tool in RouterOS. This utility, called the Traceroute, is more advanced than Ping and allows you to follow the route, as well as the devices, through which a trace packet passes as it tries to reach its IP destination host.

Having reviewed the fundamentals of ping as a basic and highly useful ICMP-based network diagnostic tool, we're going to use ping in practice and utilize this diagnostic software and check the connectivity status of out-interfaces and source addresses previously set on our MTCNA lab's Class Access Point.