MCSE : Security Specialist
Identify the purposes of subnetting and default gateways.
Default Gateways
A gateway is a device used to connect networks using different
protocols. Gateways operate at the network layer of the OSI model.
In order to communicate with a host on another network, an IP host
must be configured with a route to the destination network. If a
configuration route is not found, the host uses the gateway to
transmit the traffic to the destination host. The default gateway is
where the IP sends packets that are destined for remote networks. If
no default gateway is specified, communication is limited to the
local network.
Gateways receive data from a network using one type of protocol
stack, removes that protocol stack and repackages it with the
protocol stack that the other network can use.
Subnetworks
A
subnet mask is used to mask a portion of the IP address, so that
TCP/IP can tell the difference between the network ID and the host
ID. TCP/IP uses the subnet mask to determine whether the destination
is on a local or remote network.
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