Cisco Trimester 3 Vocabulary & Questions Chapter 5

Vocabulary

AS (autonomous system)

Bandwidth

Convergence

Cost

Delay

Dynamic routing

Holddown

Hop

Hop Count

IGRP

Interior protocol

Keepalive

Metric

MTU (maximum transmission unit)

Miltiprotocol routing

Next-hop address

Path determination

Questions

1. Path determination takes place at what layer of the OSI model?

2. What is the layer function?

3. How does a router determine on which interface to forward a data packet?

4. What does the term multiproticol routing mean?

5. What are the two basic router factors that a dynamic routing protocol depends on?

6. What does the term convergence mean in network implementation?

7. Describe the effects of a dynamic routing protocol, such as IGRP, on the performance and maintenance of the entire school district network.