4.2.2 TCP/IP Settings Problems
For a wireless client computer to communicate with a correspondent host on
the Internet by the host’s domain name (e.g.
http://www.micronet.info
), first
sends a DNS request to a DNS server on the Internet. The DNS request
travels first to the AP, and then the AP relays this request to the default
gateway of the client computer. Finally, this request is forwarded by the
gateway to the DNS server on the Internet. The DNS reply issued by the DNS
server is transmitted back to the client computer following a reverse path.
When the client computer receives the DNS reply, it knows the IP address of
the correspondent host and sends further packets to this IP address.
As illustrated in above figure, the communication path could be broken at
some of the stages. The OS-provided network diagnostic tool, ping.exe, can
be employed to find out TCP/IP-related communication problems.
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