Assignment-1: Computer Network, Protocol and IP Addressing (Ref:TCP/IP Bible by Rob
Scrimger, Paul LaSalle, Clay Leitzke, IDG Books India (P) Ltd., 1st Edn, 2001, © 2002)
[P23-26]
1. Why is TCP a reliable packet delivery but slower than UDP?
2. Why does UDP not offer assurance of packet delivery?
[P26-28]
3. Draw a connection diagram of a TCP/IP computer network and mention the name of physical components
required for the networking.
4. What is a node/host in a computer network?
5. What is an IP address?
6. What does the four parts of an IP address represent?
7. Define Class A, B, C, D and E networks in terms of the IP addresses.
8. What needs to be done before accessing a website and who does it?
[P30-40]
9. Define point-to-point connection and multipoint connection as the transmission medium connects the
computers on a network.
10. Name the various types of media connectors.
11. What is the purpose of a NIC?
12. What is the purpose of media access control standards?
13. Define contention, token passing and polling.
[P42-44]
14. What is a MAC address? When is this method of identifying devices uniquely not effective? What addresses
does the Internet layer use to transmit packets across networks?
15. How does a router discover routes to the destination network?
[P86-87]
16. Why the address mapping is done twice in communicating with a remote host?
17. What is address resolution?
18. What protocols are used for address resolution?
[P98-105]
19. What is network ID and what is host ID?
20. List the 5 guidelines for network and host IDs.
21. What is private IP addressing? List the three blocks of IP address reserved for private networks by IANA.
22. Calculate the number of hosts per network in class A, B and C networks. Give the appropriate formula for
your calculation. What would be the grand total number of hosts you can serve in these three classes?
23. In a suitable table show the network ID and host ID lengths for Class A, B and C networks.
24. What is a subnet and what is the purpose of a subnet mask?
25. How does each host normally configured in a routed environment?
26. What is a default gateway?
27. How does IP determine whether the destination is local or remote? (include appropriate diagram)
28. What rules does an IP logic at a host follow?
29. Mention the steps taken at an IP host to deliver a packet to a local destination host.
30. Mention the steps taken at an IP host to deliver a packet to a remote destination host.
31. What are the default subnet masks for Class A, B and C networks and why?
32. If a network uses the default subnet mask, what is said about the network? [P27, P103]
33. Why classfull routing is not used widely?
34. What is subnetting? Why Internet routers use Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)?
[P105-116]
35. What is a route table? With an example of a default route table, explain each address and each column of the
route table.
36. What is IP header and what is IP payload?
37. What is ICMP and ICMP packets?
38. Explain the operation and function of 'PING' and Tracert, which are two common ICMP utilities.
[P535-538]
39. List the changes of IPv6 from IPv4.
40. Discuss IPv6 addressing schemes.