Exam 10: Switching and Routing

List four benefits of either replacing the campus or corporate routers with layer 3 switches or adding layer 3 switching to a router-less network.

Match each item with a statement below. -Section of the switch that contains the Ethernet receiving logic

The ____ is a link-state routing protocol based on IS-IS.

In the ____________________ section,each output port contains an Ethernet transmitter and output frame buffer.

When all of the stations in a LAN are connected to a switched port,the network is called a totally or fully switched network.

Routing on the Internet is based on the individual networks that are called _________________________.

Ethernet frames contain a source MAC address and a destination MAC address.

Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)was initially developed to recover many of the unused addresses in class A and class C networks.

Discuss the difference between hubs versus switches.

A ____ is essentially a switch and a router combined into one package.