Comp 343/443 Midterm Exam Information, Spr 2003

The midterm will cover the following sections. Sections in bold are the most important.

1.1  Foundations
1.2  Network architecture (eg layers)
2.1  Links
2.2  Encoding: Manchester, 4B/5B, etc
2.3  Framing: byte-oriented, bit-oriented, Sonet
2.5  Sliding windows
2.6   Ethernet (see also my ethernet notes) (link fixed!)
3.1  Forwarding
3.2.1 Bridging
4.1  Basic IP, ARP
4.2.1 Routing-table basics
4.2.2  Distance Vector/RIP
5.1  UDP; port-number abstraction
5.2.1-5.2.3 Basic TCP

The following exercises from the book should give you a fair idea of what to expect on the exam;you shouldn't necessarily complete these, but you should study the text until you're reasonably confident you know how to approach them.

Solutions will be here at noon Saturday.

Chapter 1:
  #18    Network delivery times
Chapter 2:
  #30    Sliding windows and intermediate routers
  #31    Sliding windows and intermediate router queues
  #33     Ethernet minimum packet size
 #39    Ethernet collision timeline
Chapter 3:
  #1     connections => VCI tables
  #2     datagram forwarding
  #3     datagram forwarding with DEFAULT entry
  #13    Ethernet learning bridges
Chapter 4:
  #1     IP addresses are per host, not per machine
  #2     Fragmentation, header layout issues
 #12    IP distance-vector routing, without link breaks.
 #14    IP forwarding
  #15   IP distance-vector routing, with link breaks.
Chapter 5:
  #20    TIME_WAIT

Here are two further study problems:

1. The following problem deals with IP routing tablesas maintained by routers; machines A, B, C, D, etc. are routers. No hostmachines are shown. The special machine DEFAULT is also a router, but youneed not give its routing table (it represents a default destination).Nets involved are all class C, with addresses 200.0.5, 200.0.6, 200.0.7,.... The following convention is used: machine A always has host portionof its address equal to 1; e.g. 200.0.5.1, 200.0.6.1, etc. Similarly, Bhas host portion 2, C has 3, D has 4. The special machine DEFAULT has hostportion 100.

(a). Give the routing tables for the following connections. You may use symbolic names (A, B, C...) for routers instead of IP addresses. Use default routes whenever possible, but be sure that a packet destinedfor some net other than 200.0.x gets routed to machine DEFAULT.

  net               net               net                 net
200.0.5____A_____200.0.6_____B______200.0.7_______D____200.0.8______DEFAULT
                             |                                                                                                                   200.0.8.100
                        net 200.0.9
                             |
                             C
                             |
                        net 200.0.10

b. Do the same for the following configuration.
                               B
                         /            \
        net 200.0.5             net 200.0.6
     /                                           \
    A                                             D------------200.0.9
     \                                            /                              \
       net 200.0.7                net 200.0.8                        DEFAULT
                        \             /
                               C

c. Suppose two routers, A and B, have tables as below. What will happen to an IP packet sent from A to address 147.126.4.9?

     200.0.5----A----------------------B----200.0.6

A: ___________________              B: ___________________
   200.0.5  |  direct                  200.0.6  |  direct
   default  |   B                      default  |   A

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2. In real implementations of ARP, hosts are allowedto extract address mapping info from any broadcast ARP query packet: everymachine sending such a packet includes its own IP-to-physical address bindinginfo, and every machine receiving such a broadcast (whether or not intendedfor that machine) adds the source IP-to-physical address info to its ARPcache. Thus, in the example above, not only would A get B's address infobut also every machine on the net would get A's address info.

(a). Explain why this means that if
   1. A broadcasts an ARP query "where is B?"
   2. A sends B a regular IP packet
   3. B wants to send an IP packet in replyto A
then A's physical address will already be in B's ARPcache.

(b). Suppose A broadcasts a request "where is B", butinadvertently lists the physical address of another machine C instead ofits own (i.e. the ARP packet has IP src=A, phys src = ethernet addressof C).

What will happen? Specifically, will A get a reply? What entries will be made in the ARP caches on A, B, C, and a 4th machine D?

Suppose D uses its newly updated cache to send to A. Will the packet arrive at A? What if C tries to send to A?