CCNA 2/M8: TCP/IP Error and Control Messages

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overview 1. What deliver method does IP use? Best effort
2. What are three reasons data may fail to Hardware failure
reach its destination?
Improper configuration
Incorrect routing info
3. What does IP use to notify the sender ICMP
that the message couldn't be delivered?
4. What type of message provides Control messages
information or configuration parameters
to hosts?
8.1.1 5. What component of TCP/IP notifies the ICMP
sender that a data transmission has
failed?
6. What is the acronym for Internet Control ICMP
Message Protocol?
8.1.2 7. Does a router know the exact path a no
datagram took to get to the router?
8. What is the ONLY information a router only the source and destination
has about a datagram? IP addresses of the datagram.
9. Does ICMP correct network problems? no
10. Does ICMP notify the intended receiver no
that there was a problem delivering the
packet?
8.1.3 11. Why don't errors created by ICMP error reports could generate more
messages generate their own ICMP
error reports, causing increased
message?
congestion on an already ailing
network
8.1.4 12. What 3 addresses are needed in the IP
TCP/IP configuration if datagrams are to
SNM
travel outside the local network?
Default Gateway
13. What two things must a router have in TCP/IP properly configured on it's
order to send datagrams?
interfaces
Appropriate routing protocol
14. What is the term that is used when a Unreachable network
destination network is not accessible?
8.1.5 15. What happens if the destination device it formulates an echo reply
receives the ICMP echo request? message to send back to the
source of the echo request
16. What command is initiates an echo ping
request?
17. If a request is successful between the confirming IP connectivity
source and destination, what does it
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8.1.6 18. What would be created if two routers Loop - travels in circles
continually route a datgram back and
forth?
19. What is the maximum hop count for 15
RIP?
20. What is TTL? Time to live
8.1.7 21. What three fields are common to all Type
ICMP messages? Code
Checksum
8.1.8 22. What are four reasons datagrams may Hardware failures
not make it to their destination? improper protocol configuration
down interfaces
incorrect routing information
23. If a "3" appears in the type field, what Destination unreachable
does that mean?
24. What does the "code value" indicate? The reason the packet could not
be delivered
25. What is usually needed to forward a Packet fragmentation
datagram from a token-ring to an
Ethernet network?
8.1.9 26. If a datagram header has an error, what It sends an ICMP type 12
will a device like a router do? parameter problem message to
the source
27. When the code value of the problem the octet of the datagram that
message reaches 0, what will the produced the error
pointer field indicate?
8.2.1 28. Why is a control message sent? To inform hosts of conditions
such as network congestion or a
better gateway
29. How are ICMP control messages sent? Inside IP dtagrams
8.2.2 30. What's another term for "gateway"? router
31. What is the only device that can initiate router
a Redirect/Change request message?
32. How is a redirect/change configured on It's the default
a Cisco router?
8.2.3 33. What allows a host to ask for the current The ICMP timestamp request
time according to the remote host? message

34. What are the 2 type fields on an ICMP 13 (timestamp request) or

timestamp message? 14 (timestamp reply). The code
field value is always set to 0
because there are no additional
parameters available
35. What 3 things are contained in the the originate, receive and
ICMP timestamp reply message? transmit timestamps
36. What 2 things affects true transit time? Traffic and congestion on the
network
8.2.4 37. What 2 protocols are now used to allow BOOTP
a host to find it's network number? DHCP

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8.2.5 38. What type of message is sent out when Address mask request
a host doesn't know the network
address?
8.2.6 39. What is the multicast address for router 224.0.0.2
discovery?

40. What happens if a router receives the It doesn't answer the request
multicast but isn't configured for
multicasting?
8.2.7 41. If the default gateway is missing, what is router solicitation
the message generated by the host?
8.2.8 42. What happens when there is too much Packets are dropped
congestion on a network?
43. Why don't Cisco routers send source- because the source-quench
quench messages (by default)? message may itself add to the
network congestion.
44. What type of office might use source- small office home office
quench messages? (SOHO)