Network ID, Host ID, IP Address, Default Gateway and Subnet mask?
Question by don: Network ID, Host ID, IP Address, Default Gateway and Subnet mask?
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According to the Image:-
“IP Address: Unique Device (host) Address.”
What is a host?
“Default Gateway: IP Address of the Router on the Same Physical Segment”
What is a Physical Segment?
Best answer:
Answer by Tim the Tech
A host is a device that is using the IP address, like your PC or laptop.
Same Physical Segment in a nutshell means that it is in the same IP range as your host, so if your IP address is 192.168.10.100 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 then in order to be in the same physical segment your router would need to have an address of 192.168.10.X.
This could get really in depth if we start explaining subnets etc., but in short form when a subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 it means that any device that wants to communicate with it must have an IP address that matches the first 3 sets of numbers. A subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 means that it only has to match the first 2 sets of numbers (in this example 192.168.X.X) and 255.0.0.0 only needs to be in the 192.X.X.X range.
Hope this helps
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