Questions for Chapter 4
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What is the difference between forwarding and
routing?
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How do the TCP/IP and ATM protocol stacks differ with regard to
handling connections?
What impact does this have on the service model (quality of service)
for the overall protocol stack?
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What are the 5 network service model qualities?
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What is the meaning of the prefix address 192.168.0.0/24?
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Why is prefix addressing important in network routing?
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What are three choices for the switching fabric of a router?
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What are four major components of a router?
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Why do you need queuing in the output ports of a router?
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What is the purpose of DHCP?
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What are the 4 steps in the DHCP protocol?
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Using a local network router with Network Address Translation, you can
have several computers that share the same internet address as seen
from the internet side of the router.
Describe how this is accomplished.
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How is tunneling accomplished?
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Describe the operation of link state routing by answering the
following questions.
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What kind of information do routers send to other routers?
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What kind of communication mechanism is used between routers?
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Describe the operation of distance vector routing by
answering the following questions.
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What kind of information do routers send to other routers?
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What kind of communication mechanism is used between routers?
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Describe what happens when a router receives information from
another router.
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How can a IPv6 packet cross a IPv4 subnet without loss of information?
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What is the purpose of the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
protocol?
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What is the role of a gateway in hierarchical routing?