Focus Questions Exercise Chapter 11 Name:

Date: Class:

Cisco Exercises - Semester 2 - Networking Fundamentals

Chapter 11 Routing

1. What does a router do? What improvements do network addresses offer over physical addresses?

2. Distinguish between routed and routing protocols.

3. How does multiprotocol routing enable the Internet to exist?

4. List and briefly describe at least five examples of routing metrics.

The metrics most commonly used by routers include

Bandwidth

Delay

Load

Reliability

Hop count

Ticks

Cost

5. Briefly describe distance-vector routing.

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