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How does subnetting solve the problem of IPv4 address shortage?

Consider a network that needs 300 addresses. A class C block is too small, so they would get a class B, even though they're not using over 65,000 addresses. If you have 10 networks, that's a lot of ...
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How does subnetting solve the problem of IPv4 address shortage?

Likely that should say subnetting of classful networks solves the problem of IPv4 address shortage. Classful networking is long dead. It died in 1993 with the introduction of CIDR. Please leave it ...
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How do routers traverse packets to their destination?

The packet is wrapped up in a new L2 frame and sent to the next hop. this is the answer the question required. the ask, i believe, was really if the packet was transmitted WITHOUT an ethernet frame, ...
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Not able to ping device with different subnet on gateway and ip adress

The gateway address must be in the same subnet as the interface address. So your device is misconfigured.
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Hop 1 of the traceroute to Internet is not the gateway

Routers have multiple interfaces and subsequently multiple IP addresses. While it is nice and transparent when they send ICMP Time Exceeded messages from the interface IP address that is facing the ...
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Hop 1 of the traceroute to Internet is not the gateway

You don't mention from where you started the traceroute, so it's hard to give a definite answer. The address block assigned to you (the source addresses of your public-facing servers or your web ...
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Maximum packet size Ethernet Frame and IP packet

In short the exact definition of fragmentation is part of the answer. First, as some have answered, these are from specifications of ethernet and IP (IPv4). Since there are other Layer 2 (Data Link ...

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