National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

CSPC-32 Internetworking Protocols

Unit 2 – Review Questions

1. Why do we need dynamic routing protocols?

2. Out of the following Routing Protocols: RIP, OSPF and BGP
a. Which ones are the inter domain routing protocols?
b. Which ones are the intra domain routing protocols?
c. Which one uses TCP as its transport protocol?
d. Which one is the link state protocol?
e. Which one has its own value for the protocol field in the IP header other than
UDP or TCP?
3. Compare distance vector routing and link state routing protocols?
4. Compare and contrast the advertisements used by RIP and OSPF?
5. What is the default TTL value in a multicast datagram?
6. Which of the two protocol TCP & UDP which one does not support multicasting and
broadcasting? Why?
7. Can a multicast address be used as a source address? Support your answers with
simple explanation?
8. Is an ICMP error generated in response to a datagram destined to a multicast address?
Why?
9. On which layer does IGMP work in TCP/IP Protocol suite?
10. Does broadcast increase the amount of network traffic?
11. Consider the following network. With the indicated link costs, use Dijkstra’s shortest
path to compute the shortest path from x to all network nodes. Show how the
algorithm works by computing a table with D(v), p(v) – for each node (Refer
Computer Networking by James F.Kurose and Keith W. Ross)
 Where D(v) - cost of least path from source to destination v as of this iteration of
this algorithm
 p(v) – previous node (neighbor of v) along the current least-cost path from source
to v
12. Describe how loops in paths can be detected in BGP?
13. What is the role played by IGMP protocol?
14. How does BGP use the NEXT-HOP attribute? How does it use the AS-PATH
attribute?
15. Is it possible for an organisation’s web server and mail server to have exactly the
same alias for a host name (for example foo.com)? What would be the type for the RR
that contains the hostname of the mailserver?
16. When does DNS use TCP?
17. Which domain of DNS tree is used for handling address to name translation? Which
resource record is used for reverse lookup in DNS?
18. What is Hairpinning and NAT Loopback?
19. Explain NAT and UDP?
20. Consider the network shown below. Suppose AS3 and AS2 are running OSPF for
their intra-AS routing protocol. Suppose AS1 and AS4 are running RIP for their intra-
AS routing protocol. Suppose eBGP and iBGP are used for the inter-AS routing
protocol. Initially suppose there is no physical link between AS2 and AS4

a. Router 3c learns about prefix x from which routing protocol: OSPF, RIP, eBGP, or
iBGP?
b. Router 3a learns about x from which routing protocol?
c. Router 1c learns about x from which routing protocol?
d. Router 1d learns about x from which routing protocol?