Answers to Chapter 4 Review Questions
| 1: | What does hierarchy provide in a well-designed netork? |
| A1: | The foundation, or the skeleton on which everything else hangs. |
| 2: | What is the primary tool used to bound the area affected by network changes? |
| A2: | Summarization. |
| 3: | How can you determine which links can be removed from a fully-meshed core network to decrease the number of links? |
| A3: | By looking at the normal traffic patterns and determining which points the majority of the traffic will flow between. |
| 4: | What provides ways around failure points in the network? |
| A4: | Redundancy. |
| 5: | What two things are most desirable in a routing protocol? |
| A5: | Low overhead and fast convergence. |
| 6: | What can a routing protocol do to decrease it's burden to hosts that are not running ... |
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