TCP/IP has 2 crucial settings and 5 related settings.....anyone have any idea what this means?
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This is a very poorly worded question but I will assume you mean the IP settings needed to connect to a network such as address, subnet, gateway and dns addresses. TCP is a layer above IP so those are not in its scope. The address and subnet mask are crucial. If you want to connect outside of that subnet, you need a gateway. If you want to be able to use domain names like google.com rather than IP addresses everywhere (and the problems that entails with HTTP/1.1) you need the address of a DNS server too. The address is relatively obvious. A subnet mask splits up an existing address space into smaller networks. 192.168.0.0 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 means that the first 24 bits (3 numbers) define the sub-network and the final number is the address of the machine. If you use the above subnet and want to talk to a machine with an address such as 192.168.1.10, you would need a gateway to route packets to that subnet.
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