IANA IPV4 Special-Purpose Addresses

Question 1

It is used for testing and debugging of programs, hardware, protocol, and connections. (SYN-ACK)

Answer 1

Diagnostic (Loopback/Localhost Address)

Question 2

It is used for routing internet datagram (TCP)

Answer 2

Default Network

Question 3

It is used for broadcasting messages to the entire network.

Answer 3

Network Broadcast

Question 4

It is the preconfigured default IPadddresses for network devices to extent IPV4 spaces

Answer 4

Private-use of Internet Space

Question 5

If DHCP is not present, these IP addresses will be selected and configured by the network device

Answer 5

Link-Local Addresses

Question 6

… determines which portion of an IP address identifies the network and which portion identifies the host. Like the IP address, it is represented by four octets. The network bits are represented by the 1s in the network mask, and the nodes bits are represented by the 0s.

Answer 6

subnet mask (default mask)

Question 7

is used to specify the address of the nearest routing device that is used by the host device to forward addressed packets onto the network

Answer 7

Default Gateway