November 1999
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
15h 3m
English
| 1: | How long is an IP address? |
| 2: | When is the best time to perform subnet masking? When is not good practice to use it? |
| 3: | What is route aggregation? When should it be utilized? |
Answers:
| A1: | An IP address is 32 bits long and is divided into four octets. Each octet is separated by a dotted decimal, as in 131.108.1.1. |
| A2: | Subnet masking is necessary for any IP network, even when you have a single interface and cannot attach thousands of hosts. If you have a large number of hosts in your network, you should subnet to separate broadcast domains. |
| A3: | Route aggregation deals with groupings of contiguous addresses. You should perform it as a regular practice whenever you have a contiguous block of addresses, or major nets that are all behind ... |
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