Advanced Interface Configuration

Question 1

Fragmentation

Answer 1

Can occur if the MTU is too low for a given IP packet

Question 2

Jumbo Frames

Answer 2

Frames larger than 1500 bytes, typically contains 9KB

Question 3

Load

Answer 3

Is the amount of processing and bandwidth occurring on a device at a given time.

Question 4

Load Balancing

Answer 4

Is the distribution of network traffic among several devices in order to offset the load on a single device

Question 5

Window

Answer 5

Window is a 16-bit field in a TCP header that specifies the size of the sender’s receive window, which is used to buffer incoming data

Question 6

Windowing

Answer 6

Used by TCP sessions to enable a host to send more than one TCP segment to another host before receiving an ack that the previous segments were received, which improves the communication speed. In addition, windowing can improve the reliability of a TCP connection by mitigating traffic congestion