TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1: The Protocols (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Exercises
| 3.1 | Must the loopback address be 127.0.0.1? |
| 3.2 | Identify the routers in Figure 3.6 with more than two network interfaces. |
| 3.3 | What's the difference in the subnet mask for a class A address with 16 bits for the subnet ID and a class B address with 8 bits for the subnet ID? |
| 3.4 | Read RFC 1219 [Tsuchiya 1991] for a recommended technique for assigning subnet IDs and host IDs. |
| 3.5 | Is the subnet mask 255.255.0.255 valid for a class A address? |
| 3.6 | Why do you think the MTU of the loopback interface printed in Section 3.9 is set to 1536? |
| 3.7 | The TCP/IP protocol suite is built on a datagram network technology, the IP layer. Other protocol suites are built on a connection-oriented network technology. Read [Clark 1988] to discover the three advantages the datagram network layer provides. |