SweetTechieKate
Beta member
- Messages
- 3
Hey guys! My name is Kate. I am going back to school for a degree in CS because I hated my future career path in finance and sales.
Anyhow, I had an interview for an internship for a network security firm. My interviewer gave me a simple take home problem and I am looking for some pointers.
The problem is to manually apply an IP address and Default gateway given to me by my interviewer and come up with the subnet mask that will allow my computer to connect with the router.
I have a desktop with Windows XP and a wireless connection with a Netgear router. I am upstairs, the wireless router is downstairs.
My interviewer instructed me to go to Wireless Connection > Properties > General Tab > Internet Protocol TCP/IP > Properties > General Tab >
Then switch from "Obtain IP address automatically" to "Use the following IP address:"
Once there he instructed me to fill in:
IP address: 192.168.0.100 (not sure if that makes a difference)
Subnet Mask: (this is what I need to find out for my internet to work!)
Default Gateway: 192.168.5.1 (his arbitrary gateway to manually add)
When toying around the subnet mask would automatically fill in as 255.255.255.0 and I thought that is the right answer and it would work. It does not however. The internet connection stays connected but no more packets will be received.
What am I doing wrong?
I am new to this field, if I answer this question soon I have a shot at this internship! :laughing:
Anyhow, I had an interview for an internship for a network security firm. My interviewer gave me a simple take home problem and I am looking for some pointers.
The problem is to manually apply an IP address and Default gateway given to me by my interviewer and come up with the subnet mask that will allow my computer to connect with the router.
I have a desktop with Windows XP and a wireless connection with a Netgear router. I am upstairs, the wireless router is downstairs.
My interviewer instructed me to go to Wireless Connection > Properties > General Tab > Internet Protocol TCP/IP > Properties > General Tab >
Then switch from "Obtain IP address automatically" to "Use the following IP address:"
Once there he instructed me to fill in:
IP address: 192.168.0.100 (not sure if that makes a difference)
Subnet Mask: (this is what I need to find out for my internet to work!)
Default Gateway: 192.168.5.1 (his arbitrary gateway to manually add)
When toying around the subnet mask would automatically fill in as 255.255.255.0 and I thought that is the right answer and it would work. It does not however. The internet connection stays connected but no more packets will be received.
What am I doing wrong?
I am new to this field, if I answer this question soon I have a shot at this internship! :laughing: