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  2. ping (networking utility) - Wikipedia

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    ping is a computer network administration software utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. It is available for virtually all operating systems that have networking capability, including most embedded network administration software.

  3. Default gateway - Wikipedia

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    The following example shows IP addresses that might be used with an office network that consists of six hosts plus a router. The six hosts addresses are:

  4. Private network - Wikipedia

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    In Internet networking, a private network is a computer network that uses a private address space of IP addresses.These addresses are commonly used for local area networks (LANs) in residential, office, and enterprise environments.

  5. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol - Wikipedia

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    The DHCP server determines the configuration based on the client's hardware address as specified in the CHADDR (client hardware address) field. In the following example the server (192.168.1.1) specifies the client's IP address in the YIADDR (your IP address) field.

  6. Gateway address - Wikipedia

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    The gateway operates at the network layer (Layer 3) of the OSI Model.The gateway is used when transmitting packets.When packets are sent over a network, the destination IP address is examined.

  7. PathPing - Wikipedia

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    The advantages of PathPing over ping and traceroute are that each node is pinged as the result of a single command, and that the behavior of nodes is studied over an extended time period, rather than the default ping sample of four messages or default traceroute single route trace. The disadvantage is that it takes a total of 25 seconds per hop ...

  8. Link-local address - Wikipedia

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    The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has reserved the IPv4 address block 169.254.0.0 / 16 (169.254.0.0 – 169.254.255.255) for link-local addressing. [1] The entire range may be used for this purpose, except for the first 256 and last 256 addresses (169.254.0.0 / 24 and 169.254.255.0 / 24), which are reserved for future use and must not be selected by a host using this dynamic ...

  9. Broadcast address - Wikipedia

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    Broadcast address derivation example Network IP address breakdown for 172.16.0.0 / 12 Binary form Dot-decimal notation In bold below is shown the host part (suffix) of the IP address, with the network address prefix being the non-bold bits to its left.