Questions tagged [ipv4]
For questions about Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4); as specified in RFC791.
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What would be the router's gateway IP address that is connected to a network containing two smaller networks [duplicate]
Assuming that we can use any available public address, we have two separate subnet masks 255.254.0.0 which contains 131,070 usable addresses (IP range 126.240.0.1-126.241.255.254) and 255.255.128.0 ...
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Best settings for home network router [on hold]
what should I keep enabled and what should I disable for best performance.
Now Im losing packets very often. Internet provider told me there is no problem on their side.. :/
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Get last logged on Windows-User without administrative access [on hold]
I don't know if this question belongs in this section but I could not find a community where it could have fit better.
we're currently working on a mixed list of ip addresses and / or hostnames. ...
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Same Vlan Name / ID on different switches network subnet same or different?
I have several switches (some on same floor and another on other floors) all connected to core layer 3 switches through trunk links.
One of the vlan id / name is repeated along the switches. May I ...
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Connection between two networks with different IPs and identical subnets?
How can we establish communication between two networks with different IPs but same Subnets?
Network Connection 1: (Factory Network for machinery)
I.P = 192.168.19.X
S.N = 255.255.255.0
G.W = 0.0.0.0
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IP block assignment [duplicate]
Let's say that an ISP manages the IP block 128.64.32.0/19, and assigns the block 128.64.32.0/22 to company A. Now, company B needs a block of IP addresses for 1234 hosts, immediately after the IP ...
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Hierarchical issue of Broadcasting on different subnets
I've got a problem that I can't seem to understand.
192.168.255.0 /24 is a valid network address.
The broadcast address for this network is 192.168.255.255.
192.168.0.0 /16 is a valid network ...
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How to handle ICMP-in-IPv6 or ICMPv6-in-IPv4?
Since ICMP and ICMPv6 have different IP protocol numbers, it's technically possible for an IPv4 host to receive an ICMPv6 packet or for an IPv6 host to receive an ICMP packet. Is the host's behavior ...
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How to tell apart the type of the mask(subnet-supernet-net mask)
Say we have the the IP address 10.2.8.230/24
Anyone could say the following:
It just represents a normal network:10.2.8.0/24
Or it is a subnet because normally this IP address is in the class A ...
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What does it mean when the last digits of an IP address change? [closed]
So in a case where I have an IP address, 162.158.68.xxx, what is happening when those values in xxx change?
I ask because I'm looking at requests going through to my application's server and one of ...
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Addressing for a WAN, LAN and DMZ
I was wondering about the addressing for certain types of networking areas...
I use 192.168.0.0 for a LAN network, 10.0.0.0 for a WAN and 172.16.0.0 for a DMZ. But I've been confused why a 10.0.0.0 ...
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Host address not host range? [duplicate]
can someone explain to me how to get the host address? I understand how to get the subnet answer but not the host address, and majority of the google searches / videos always give me the host answer ...
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Subnetting - IP Address Classes [duplicate]
I've been trying to get my head around subnetting but seems to be getting confusing with the classes and IP ranges within that class.
Example:
IP Decimal:10.2.225.234/22
IP Binary:00001010 00000010 ...
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ACL: Deny specific host not working
I'm trying to create an acl for use with a nat but I can't get the deny statements working.
All hosts on a private network should be accessible, except from a server which should not be accessible ...
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How to architect a globally distributed website, from an IP address perspective
I would like to have a website that is loaded fast from any point in the world. From my understanding, you need to take advantage of the data center "regions" at places like Google Cloud or AWS. That'...
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Is it possible that two servers were configured with the same ip under the same switch
I have two physical servers, their configuration as following:
ServerI:
IPADDR=10.1.1.5
NETMASk=255.255.255.0
ServerII:
IPADDR=10.1.1.5 (Same IP)
NETMASk=255.255.0.0 (different NETMASK)
Because of ...
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Given an IP address and a subet mask, how do I find the max number of subnets and usable host IP's? [duplicate]
my question is based on an IP address and a subnet, how can I find the maximum number of subnets and the number of usable host IP address per subnet. This is all IPv4 if that helps.
For example if I ...
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Access Localhost (Ubuntu -VM) from Windows [closed]
I use Ubuntu in my virtual machine and start from there my code projects. These project when active can be run under localhost:3000.
Now when i execute in Ubuntu ifconfig I get following result:
If ...
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Client timeout for Cisco IOS Static DHCP Pool
I'm not a network admin, but I have an old Cisco Catalyst 3560 for my network. I've successfully set up a DHCP Pool:
ip dhcp pool 192.168.0.0
network 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0
default-router 192....
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Public and Private IPs
I wondered if someone could explain this to me.
At work we have a firewall that connects to the Internet and has an external IP configured on it via DHCP. The firewall's WAN port connects to an ...
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Cisco ASA 5505- My subnet mask is different from Show Route
While I was troubleshooting a DNS issue on my 10.10.10.0/30 subnet, I noticed the Local (L) and Connected (C) has different values. I configured the 10.10.10.0 network to use 255.255.255.252 has the ...
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Questions about IP addresses [duplicate]
So, I have to research IP addresses, and there are a couple of things I don't quite understand. In my test there will be questions like 'Which of those IP-addresses is private' or 'which of those is a ...
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Does an IP address with host part zero's represent a network, or a network interface in a network?
If the host part of a IPv4 address is all zero (e.g. 192.168.1.0 in a network with mask 255.255.255.0), does the address represent the network, or a network interface in the network?
Thanks.
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IHL(Internet Header Length) field is 4 bit long and specifies the header length in 32 bit words. What does it mean?
I am trying to understand IPv4. I cannot understand
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What can an IP address be assigned to?
What can an IP address be assigned to?
A network interface, which is what I thought originally. (I seem to hear a network interface can have multiple IP addresses assigned to it, and if it is true, ...
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Are the IPv6 address space and IPv4 address space completely disjoint?
Tanenbaum's Computer Networks says
Finally, IPv4 addresses can be written as a pair of colons and an old dotted
decimal number, for example:
::192.31.20.46
Does it mean the IPv4 address space ...
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Packet tracer - why “show ip route” shows network address
This is just a quick question I am wondering out of curiosity.
When I set up a network in packet tracer, why does "show IP route" show the network address (example: 199.120.5.64/27) and not the IP ...
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Public IP addresses on cloud platforms [closed]
My question is about cloud platforms like AWS or Azure. Whenever we create an instance (VM or VPC), AWS allocates a set of public and private IPs for that instance.
Now the number of user accounts (...
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How does a host figure out the broadcast domain for a /23 [duplicate]
If a host has IP 192.168.20.150 with DHCP server say 192.168.20.10, how does the host know the bounds of the subnet? is this where proper network subnetting comes in?
To clarify... the DHCP server ...
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What is IP squat space
I came across this article and I'm trying to understand what is going on here, I found some packets on my network containing 22.0.0.0/8 and 29.0.0.0/8 IP range and It's based on:
https://en.wikipedia....
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How to block youtube url on a cisco router
How can i block youtube on a cisco router?
I have already used class map as seen below
class-map match-any url-block-class
match protocol http host "*youtube*"
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policy-map block-class
policy-map ...
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Host IP address vs gateway IP address vs DHCP IP address
What is the difference between a host IP address, a gateway IP address, and a DHCP IP address when setting up networking devices?
For example, when configuring a virtual network adapter for my VM, I ...
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MAc address or IP address? which one gets used from my pc to router? [duplicate]
Question 1) which one is used nowadays? NAT or PAT?
Question 2) as I knew, when my pc requests some website, what happens is , the data(packets) from my pc go to router. then router makes the request ...
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IPv4 only host on a dual stack environment
I am looking into migrating to IPv6 at my company. Our plan is to dual-stack everything for now, however, we have a couple of local servers that are IPv4 capable only. The rest of our network will be ...
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How are IPv6 addresses grouped? [closed]
I apologise off the bat if this question is too basic to belong in this group. Perhaps it can be moved elsewhere if that's the case, or I can be directed to another SE site.
With IPv4 I have long ...
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Where is the block which caused IPV4 client can not access IPV6 Server
I read many documents which are saying if you are in IPV4 network then you can not access IPV6 network, for example when I was at home I can not access some IPV6 website, such as:ipv6test.google.com.
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Defining what type of casting based on IPv4 address
I'm kinda new to networking. I have a small question, how can I determine what type of casting (unicast, multicast or broadcast) is it based on IPv4 address. For example: 142.55.172.200
I tried to ...
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Does every host on the LAN share the same ARP table, or do hosts keep them individually?
I'm just learning about ARP. I'm a little bit confused. My confusion is better explained in a scenario.
Host A is communicating with Host B. Host A knows Host B's IP address, but not it's MAC address....
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How does ping 1.1 convert to ping 1.0.0.1?
I need the rules for these ip address shorthands.
C:\Users\avina>ping 1.1
Pinging 1.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 1.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=58
Reply from 1.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=4ms ...
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inconsistent bad mask error
in packet tracer i was assigning:
83.174.16.164 255.255.255.248 to 3560 switch
which shouldn't throw an error of bad mask given that it is in the usable range:
Address: 83.174.16.160 ...
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Will the packet be dropped when the number of hops equals to default TTL?
From my understanding, the default TTL represents the maximum number of hops allowed such that the packet may reach the host.
NTP Documentation Archive: ttl - This option is used only with ...
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What is the difference between 0.0.0.0 and a loopback IP address?
From the book Computer Network:
The IP address 0.0.0.0, the lowest address, is used by hosts when they
are being booted. It means ‘‘this network’’ or ‘‘this host.’’
... All addresses of the ...
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Network IP questions [duplicate]
Suppose I have a network with IP address 192.168.10.1/16.
This network can hold up to 65536 machines, from 192.168.0.0 up to 192.168.255.255 (65534 machines without the network ID and broadcast ...
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How color is encoded in the DS field/ToS IPv4 - QoS?
The RFC 2698 says - "The color is coded in the DS field [RFC2474] of the packet in a PHB specific manner". I am trying to understand how color is encoded like in the IPv4 header - in the TOS field ...
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Why we need ARP when each device has its own IP address?
I don't really understand Address Resolution Protocol (ARP). Why we need ARP when each device has its own IP address?
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Why aren't we encrypting data on Network level instead of transport level when using e.g. HTTP [closed]
Why we are bothering to encrypt our data on a transport level, instead of just doing that on a network level with e.g. IPSec and get rid of the need to to that in upper layers. For example instead of ...
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Why are there only ~4 billion IP address available? [duplicate]
I am new to networking, so I apologize is this question is naive. I understand that 2^32 = ~4 billion. However, if you add in subnet masks, won't this number increase? For example, let's say you have ...
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Is IP address starting with 115. public or private?
I have one device with ip address 115.124.114.111. I want to know if IP address starting with 115. public or private?
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Exclude 10.63.128.0 10.63.255.255 or 10.63.128.0/17 range from 10.0.0.0/10
Please help to suggest a method to exclude IP range 10.63.128.0 10.63.255.255 from 10.0.0.0/10.
I have a access list 3100 to filter the traffic with rule 10 10.0.0.0 0.63.255.255 and now I have to ...
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Rate-limiting policer on aggregated ethernet (AE) bundle
I am facing problem regarding firewall policier on Juniper MX platform. We have bundle link (AE Link) consisting of 2 x 10G links on which P2P IP is configured with customer for internet access. Now ...
