What happens if a machine with the address 192.168.1.1/24 sends a message to an IP address 192.168.1.4/24 that is not assigned to any machine in its network?

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What happens if a machine with the address  192.168.1.1/24  sends a message to an IP address  192.168.1.4/24  that is not assigned to any machine in its network?

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The sending machine will not be able to obtain the MAC address of the destination machine and will never send the message

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By applying the mask, the sending machine will know that the destination IP address does not correspond to any machine in the network and reject the message

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The message will be sent and no machine will receive it

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