Answers to Review Questions

1. B. Unlike unicast addresses, global unicast addresses are meant to be routed.

2. A. Packets addressed to a unicast address are delivered to a single interface. For load balancing, multiple interfaces can use the same address.

3. C. Link-local addresses are meant for throwing together a temporary LAN for meetings or a small LAN that is not going to be routed but needs to share and access files and services locally.

4. D. These addresses are meant for nonrouting purposes like link-local, but they are almost globally unique, so it is unlikely they will have an address overlap. Unique local addresses were designed as a replacement for site-local addresses.

5. B. Packets addressed to a multicast address are delivered ...

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