IP Flashcards
How to do scalable forwarding?
Need location aware forwarding - global hierarchical addresses
What does the IP protocol do?
glues together different netowrk technologies
1) run the IP layer, 2) have interfaces that speak different protocols
IP runs on what?
routers
Problems with classful addressing?
1) inefficient use of address space
2) too many routing entries
Host, subnet mask, and subnet number interaction
Host & mast = subnet number
Forwarding table with subnet number/mask
subnet number, network mask, next hop
Steps for finding next hop with subnetting
get packet -> apply mask to addr -> get subnet # -> see if subnet # you got matches the subset number listed
Switch vs. Router layer
Switch - link/mac
Router - IP/network
use for Switch vs. Router
switch - connect LAN to form switch networks
router - connecct switch networks to form internetworks
hardware for switch vs. router
switch - ports belong to some link layer technology
router - ports running different technologies
function for switch vs. router
switch - lookups on mac address
router - lookups on IP address
types of routing protocols
intradomain and interdomain
intradomain routing protocols
run inside an internetwork
ex - Open shortest path first (OSPF), routing information protocol (RIP)
interdomain routing protocols
establish connectivity across internetworks (BGP)
benefits of subnetting
prevent external enity from using a disproportionately large number of addresses
subnetting
way of taking a classful network address and slicing it into multiple subnetwork addresses using subnet masks
Benefits of classless routing (prefixes)
1) decrease # forwarding table entries, 1 entry per prefix
2) address space utilitization