Chapter Review Questions

1.Name the two components of CEF.
2.Name the three most common packet switching methods in Cisco IOS.
3.Why does MPLS use CEF?
4.What is the adjacency table used for?
5.What fields of the IP header does CEF use to load-balance IP packets?
6.How does CEF perform equal and unequal cost load balancing?
7.How does a prefix in the CEF table get the imposed label stack?
8.How is load balancing of labeled packets performed in Cisco IOS?
9.Name two reasons not to use CEF per-packet load balancing.
10.Name two huge differences between the fast switching and the CEF switching methods.

 

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