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CHeCkING CoNNeCTIoN To THe INTerNeT, VPN MPLS, AND IP TeLePHoNy
You can check the connection to the router and to the networks to which the
router has access by ‘pinging’ (sending test data to) the IP addresses.
• Connect the computer to the port which has a connection to the network that
you want to test.
• Check that the computer is allocated an IP address via DHCP and check wheth-
er you can ping the ‘default gateway’ that the computer has received together
with this IP address.
If you can ping the default gateway, you are connected to the router. Next, you
can try pinging IP addresses in the network that you want to test.
If you can ping IP addresses in the network, you have a connection to the rel-
evant network.