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CCENT Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician Study Guide: (ICND1 Exam 640-822), 2nd Edition
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CCENT Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician Study Guide: (ICND1 Exam 640-822), 2nd Edition

by Todd Lammle
January 2013
Beginner to intermediate
576 pages
14h 1m
English
Sybex
Content preview from CCENT Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician Study Guide: (ICND1 Exam 640-822), 2nd Edition

IPv4 Address Types

Most people use the term broadcast as a generic term, and most of the time, we understand what they mean. But not always. For example, you might say, “The host broadcasted through a router to a DHCP server,” but, well, it's pretty unlikely that this would ever really happen. What you probably mean—using the correct technical jargon—is, “The DHCP client broadcasted for an IP address; a router then forwarded this as a unicast packet to the DHCP server.”

Okay, I've referred to broadcast addresses throughout Chapters 1 and 2 and even showed you some examples. But I really haven't gone into the different terms and uses associated with them yet, and it's about time I did. So, here are the four IPv4 address types that I'd like to ...

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