Week 6

Question 1

What is Routing?

Answer 1

• Routing is the process of deciding what path to take from sender to receiver (packet forwarding).
• usually there is more than one route possible; devices that perform routing must keep tables to make decisions about which path to send packets.
• Handled by Routers that maintain their own routing tables
• Routing tables indicates next route to which datagram should be sent

Question 2

What is DHCP?

Answer 2

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a standardized network protocol used on Internet Protocol (IP) networks for dynamically distributing network configuration parameters, such as IP addresses for interfaces and services.