College Name: Florida Tech
Subject: Networks and Communication
Course Code: MGT 5157
Title: ASSIGNMENT 3
Question 40862: • Explain MAC addressing
• Understand medium-access control
• Describe network addressing
Instructions
For each of the true/false or multiple-choice questions below, choose one of the options and explain your answer. For the others, provide an explanation. 10 points will be earned for each question.
1. The link layer encapsulates the datagram received from the network layer into a frame.
a. True
b. False
Explain:
2. MAC protocols employ CRC to detect errors.
a. True
b. False
Explain:
3. The physical topology of a LOGICAL token ring protocol LAN is a:
a. Star
b. Bus
c. Ring
d. All of these
e. None of these
4. Recall that IP addressing has undergone change since the early forms of Class A, B, and C addresses. Review the CIDR discussion in the Network Layer lecture and answer the following question: An organization wants to form subnets for four departments with the following number of hosts:
• A dept: 82
• B dept: 40
• C dept: 18
• D dept 60
Assuming the ISP serving the company starts with old Class C address 210.118.63, what do the company’s CIDR entries in the routing table look like?
5. Describe a metric that might be used in a routing table for Internet data communications.
