<Li> 255.255. 255.0 (/ 24 in CIDR notation) </Li> <P> The address range assignable to hosts is from 192.168. 4.1 to 192.168. 4.254 . TCP / IP defines the addresses 192.168. 4.0 and 192.168. 4.255 for special functions . </P> <P> The office's hosts send packets to addresses within this range directly, by resolving the destination IP address into a MAC address with the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) sequence and then encapsulates the IP packet into a MAC frame addressed to the destination host . </P> <P> A packet addressed outside of this range, for this example, addressed to 192.168. 12.3, cannot travel directly to the destination . Instead it must be sent to the default gateway for further routing to their ultimate destination . In this example, the default gateway uses the IP address 192.168. 4.1, which is resolved into a MAC address with ARP in the usual way . The destination IP address remains 192.168. 12.3, but the next - hop MAC address is that of the gateway, rather than of the ultimate destination . </P>

Is default gateway the same as broadcast address