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.