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I am using RouterSim Network visualizer 6.0 for lab work.
I noticed that when I hook up two pc's through their ethernet NIC connection I can ping the other pc no matter what ip address I assign to the PC's. i.e. HostA 192.168.1.10/24 will ping Host B 172.16.1.10/16.
How is that possible?

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