The address of the device that serves as the exit point out of your own network.
The address of the router configured as the destination for a packet when no matching route information exists. Since it's the sole exit out of your own segment, a misconfiguration directly causes a total loss of external communication. In practice it's often assigned the first or last address in the subnet, such as 192.168.1.1.
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