Chapter 7 & 8 Vocabulary & Questions

Vocabulary

Acknowledgment number

ARP

Autonomous system

Bandwidth

Broadcast

Checksum

Configuration register

Delay

Destination port

Distance-vector routing algorithm

DNS

Dynamic routing

EEPROM

Enhanced

Flooding

Flow Control

Handshake

HLEN

Host

IGRP

Link-state routing algorithm

MTU

Network

OSPF

Ping

RARP

Reliability

RIP

Sequence number

Source port

Static route

Subnetwork

TCP

Telnet

Trace

UDP

Window

Window size

Questions

1. Why does a router need an operating system?

2. Why might there be different versions of router operating systems?

3. Routers can boot Cisco IOS software from where?

4. The router cannot be configured to look elsewhere if the IOS software is not in Flash memory. True or False?

5. The configuration register is an n-bit register in NVRAM. What is the value of n?

6. What command would you use to check the configuration register setting?

7. What does the acronym EEPROM stand for?

8. What does it mean to configure a router?

9. Why must routers be configured?

10. Describe the router configuration process.

11. Explain the router password recovery procedure on 2500 series rotuers.