Layered Protocols
A set of rules and regulations by which computers networked together can communicate.
What is a Communication Protocol
PDU component found at the Internetwork Layer
What is a Packet
the default subnet mask for a Class “A” network
What is 255.0.0.0
Source and destination addresses length in bits
What is 128
Bits contained in an IP version 4 address
What is 32
3 General classifications of protocols
What is open, closed, and hybrid
PDU component found at the Network Interface Layer
What is a Frame
Reservation for the first IP on a subnet
What is a Network ID
Removing the leading zeros within each 16-bit block
What is leading zero suppression
A network with 65,534 valid host assignments
What is a Class B Network
A series of documents used to formalize protocols on the internet
What is RFC (Request for Comment)
PDU component found at the Physical Layer
What are bits
A 32-bit IP assignment used to determine the IP network value of a given IP address
What is a subnet mask
Representing a contiguous sequence of 16-bit blocks set to 0 using a double colon
What is zero compression
The maximum value that can be contained in an octet of an IP address
The full name if the IETF
What is Internet Engineering Task Force
Full name of a PDU
What is a Protocol Data Unit
Reservation for the last IP on a subnet
What is a broadcast ID
The number of IP address classes
What is 5
The most popular protocol suite employed today
What is Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
PDU component found at the Host-to-Host Layer
What is a Segment
2 characters for the start of a multicast address
What is FF
Full name for IANA
What is Internet Assigned Numbers Authority