Communications
Potpourri
Types of IPv4 Addresses
Acronyms
Subnetting
100

________________  refers to one device sending a message to one other device in one-to-one communications.

What is Unicast transmission?

100

This is a 3 part question....

What does NAT stand for?  AND  When is it used?  AND what device uses it?

NAT stands for Network Address Translation

It is used when translating Private IP addresses to Public IP addresses and vice versa....  

It is performed by a ROUTER

100

Designed to support extremely large networks with more than 16 million host addresses.

What are Class A addresses?

100

What does ARP stand for?

What is Address Resolution Protocol?

100

What subnet is this host on?  

200.200.200.100 255.255.255.0

What is 200.200.200.0?

200

___________________  refers to a device sending a message to all the devices on a network in one-to-all communications.

What is Broadcast transmission?

200

This is used to reduce the scope of broadcast flooding.. 

What is SUBNETTING?

200

The ranges of 1st Octet of the IP addresses for Class A, B, and C?

Class A: 1-126

Class B: 128-191

Class C: 192 - 223

200

What does DHCP stand for?

What is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol?

200

What subnet is this host on?  

205.205.205.23/24

What is 205.205.205.0?

300

A _____________  has a destination IP address with all ones (1s) in the host portion, or 32 one (1) bits.

What is a broadcast packet?

300

ARP sends Layer 2 broadcasts to a known IPv4 address on the local network to discover the associated MAC address.

What is ARP?

300

Which address prefix range is reserved for IPv4 multicast?

What is 224.0.0.0 - 239.255.255.255?

300

What does RIP stand for?  ( as in Router RIP ... )

What is Routing Information Protocol?

300

What subnet is this host on?

195.195.195.45 255.255.255.240

What is 195.195.195.32?

400

____________ reduces traffic by allowing a host to send a single packet to a selected set of hosts

What is Multicast transmission?

400

When is ARP used in networking?

ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) is used in networking to resolve IP addresses to MAC addresses within a local area network (LAN),....  

(When a host is trying to send info to another host BUT DOES NOT KNOW ITS MAC ADDRESS..

400

________________ are used by a Windows DHCP client to self-configure in the event that there are no DHCP servers available.

What are Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) addresses?

400

What does IANA stand for?

What is the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority?

400

What subnet is this host on?

210.210.210.77/27

What is 210.210.210.64

500

_____________  are more commonly identified as only 127.0.0.1, and they are special addresses used by a host to direct traffic to itself.

What are Loopback addresses?

500

A _____________ is a network address valid only for communication within the same network segment or link, not routable beyond that segment

What is a Link-Local Address?

500

The ranges of PRIVATE IP addresses for classes A,B, and C.

Class A: 10.*.*.*

Class B: 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255

Class C: 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255

500

What does the IEEE stand for?

What is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers?

500

What subnet is this host on?

215.215.215.210  255.255.255.248

What is 215.215.215.208