Question

while investigating the settings on your SOHO router, you find two IP address reported on the devices's routing table, which is used to determine where to send incoming data. The two IP addresses are 192.168.2.1 and 71.9.200.235. Which of these Ip addresses would you see listed as the default gateway on the devices in your local network? How do you know?

Answer 1

Answer:

From the two IP addresses, 192.168.2.1 can be listed as the default gateway in local network devices.

The reason is that we are allocated with the ranges that are reserved for the local networks by RFC 1918.

These ranges are given as follows:

• For (10/8 prefix)  

                            10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255

• (172.16/12 prefix)

                            172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255

• (192.168/16 prefix)

                            192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255

Moreover the default gateway for a device can also be known by the commands ipconfig or  ipconfig/all on the command prompt.

I hope it will help you!