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This course is a quick guide for understanding the internet protocol standard IPv4, including its packet structure, subnetting, and address configuration on hosts and routers. It also discusses the sixth version, IPv6, and its addressing scheme, subnetting, and coexistence with IPv4.

A Quick Guide for IP Subnetting

# Configuring an IP address on Windows
Let’s take the example from the topology in the figure below and configure an IP address on the PC and the Cisco router:


When it comes to setting up an IP address on our Linux-based platform, we can check it by typing the `ifconfig` command in the following terminal: 


We see the following information when we run the `ifconfig` command:

- `inet`: IPv4 address
- `inet6`: IPv6 address
- `netmask`: Network mask

To check the #key# default gateway: The router to which a device will send packets for onward-forwarding. #key#, type ip route | grep default command on the terminal above.

We can set up an IP address on Windows using either the command line or the GUI. We’ll start by checking our IP address from the command line:

Learn how to configure an IP Address on a host in Windows 7/8/10.

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Configuring an IP Address on a Host

Configuring an IP address on Windows