You are an Ethical Hacker who is auditing the ABC company. When you verify the NOC one of the machines has 2 connections, one wired and the other wireless. When you verify the configuration of this Windows system you find two static routes. route add 10.0.0.0 mask 255.0.0.0 10.0.0.1 route add 0.0.0.0 mask 255.0.0.0 199.168.0.1 What is the main purpose of those static routes?

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D. The first static route indicates that the internal addresses are using the internal gateway and the The first route (10.0.0.0/8 via 10.0.0.1) directs all RFC 1918 private 10.x.x.x traffic through the internal gateway 10.0.0.1, keeping internal communications on the LAN. The second route (0.0.0.0/0 via 199.168.0.1) is a default catch-all route that forwards all remaining traffic through the external gateway 199.168.0.1, implementing split routing on the dual-homed machine.

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A. Both static routes indicate that the traffic is external with different gateway. The first route's destination (10.0.0.0) is a private RFC 1918 address range indicating internal traffic, so describing both routes as external is incorrect.

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B. The first static route indicates that the internal traffic will use an external gateway and the second The first route's gateway (10.0.0.1) is a private internal IP address, not an external gateway, meaning internal traffic is not being routed externally.

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C. Both static routes indicate that the traffic is internal with different gateway. The second route (0.0.0.0/0) uses gateway 199.168.0.1, which is a public IP address, making it an external default route rather than an internal one.

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