Exam 98-366 topic 1 question 124 discussion

im new to this but was my understanding that with out gateway address you could not connect to other networks

It's gonna have limited internet access, (you will see a small exclamation mark at the network sign), so you can access the network, you are currently in, but cannot access another one. It's like joining to a wireless router but that router is not connected to the internet.

Will not be able to access the internet. The machine has the equivalent of an IPv4 APIPA address (The 169 addresses you get when DHCP fails for whatever reason) With Link-Local (or APIPA) you can only access the local subnet. Please verify by reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address

The IP address is 192.168 which is a private IP address and makes the computer having a limited access to network

You must have a default gateway address specified to send a packet outside of the LAN. Without one, you cannot access the Internet.

They need to change this to Default gateway.

If you havent configured a default gateway, realistically that would mean no internet. But in theory if you are connected to a router, that would serve as the default gateway and therefor you would be able to connect to the internet.

"Realistically, the lack of a default gateway address means your computer will have no way of getting to the Internet. Theoretically, your computer could hold a routing table -- a list of addresses with corresponding information about which router a packet should be sent to in order to reach that address -- that would identify sources outside of your network. However, this is unreasonable for two reasons. First, that routing table would require hundreds of millions of entries, constantly update due to line failures and router outages. Secondly, most normal Internet configurations involve a single router, so the next "hop" for all of those entries would probably be the router that should be serving as a default gateway."

I thought without a gateway address you wouldn't be able to access the internet,

This configuration doesn't display the default Gateway address, so how will this computer have internet access (even though it is limited)? Is this possible because of it's link-local address fe80 /10?