The IP address 0.0.0.0 has several special meanings on computer networks.
However, it can not be used as a general-purpose unit address.
This IP address is structured like a regular one (it has four places for numbers).
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It’s easy to confuse 0.0.0.0 and127.0.0.1.
The 0.0.0.0 IP address is sometimes called a wildcard address, unspecified address, or INADDR_ANY.
A rig might give itself this address by default whenever it is offline.
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It might also be automatically assigned byDHCPin the case of address assignment failures.
When set with this address, a rig cannot communicate with any other devices on that data pipe.
0.0.0.0 can also theoretically be set as a gadget’ssubnetmask rather than its IP address.
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However, a subnet mask with this value has no practical purpose.
Both the IP address and connection mask are typically assigned 0.0.0.0 on a client.
