CIS 331: Network Introduction
Lehman College, City University of New York
Fall 2016
This Homework Is Due By 11:59 PM on Wednesday November 30, 2016
What is the purpose of the MARKER field in the BGP header? Why is it needed?
Can you imagine a situation in which an autonomous system chooses not to advertise all of its
networks? Explain.
Explain how Split Horizon is used by the RIP protocol to avoid erroneous updates to routing tables.
Please submit these essay question(s) on Blackboard in
Homework 8
as a typed Microsoft Word file or a PDF file.
No other forms of submission will be accepted.
