Question

A technician is setting up a small business network and assigns the LAN the address range 192.168.10.0/24. During setup, a workstation displays the IP address 169.254.18.7 with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 and cannot reach any internal or external resources. What is the MOST likely cause?

Accepted Answer

The workstation failed to obtain an address from the DHCP server and self-assigned an APIPA address

Answer

The workstation was manually configured with a public IP address

Answer

The default gateway is pointing to an IPv6 link-local address

Answer

The workstation is using a loopback address for diagnostics