Lesson 5: Network Protocols Flashcards
The process of running an algorithm and comparing it to the stored result.
Checksum
The time it takes a router to send an update of its routing table to all routers directly connected to it.
Convergence
An attempt by hackers to make a target IP address unavailable to its intended users by launching continuous ping requests from numerous computers so frequently that the target computer’s network capacity is overloaded and brought down.
Denial of Service (DoS) Attack
The simplest type of routing protocol that simply informs its neighbors of it’s routing table.
Distance Vector Routing Protocol
A type of routing that occurs when a protocol dynamically creates its own routing tables and keeps them updated.
Dynamic Routing
Routing protocols which use the distance vector metrics-based method of determining best routes,while using the link state method of updating the other routers in the network
Hybrid Routing Protocol
A major protocol type used by routers to construct their routing tables. Each router constructs a map of all routers on a network and updates those routers with it’s entire network map.
Link State Routing Protocol
Measurements used by a routing protocol to determine the best routes available to it.
Metrics
The IP or other protocol address of the next stop along the path to the desired destination.
Next Hop
A program used to determine whether a specific IP address can be reached on the network.
Ping
A unique address inside the computer that is associated with a specific protocol, service, or application.
Port Address
A predefined and widely accepted set of rules used to describe exactly how a specific task is to work in a network environment.
Protocol
All the protocols from a protocol suite currently used to carry out specific functions of network communications within the computer.
Protocol Stack
A group of networking protocols designed to work together to carry out all functions needed for data to be communicated across a network.
Protocol Suite
Documents by which all networking standards and protocols are defined.
Request for Comment (RFC)