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Weekly Open Ended Question #12
May 5th
The answer to the eleventh question has been added to the post.
Twelfth question:
What are BPDU Filter and BPDU Guard? How do they differ and when are they used?
Please post answers in the comments (without Googling)!
Weekly Open Ended Question #11
Apr 26th
The answer to the tenth question has been added to the post.
Eleventh question:
What is PIM, what are its modes and how do they differ?
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PIM is “Protocol Independent Multicast”. Its two modes are Dense and Sparse. Dense mode is a pudh model, while Sparse Mode is a pull model.
Weekly Open Ended Question #10
Apr 9th
The answer to the ninth question has been added to the post.
Tenth question:
What are ISL and 802.1q, and how do they differ?
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These are both VLAN trunking protocols. ISL is a Cisco proprietary protocol, while 802.1q is an IEEE standard. ISL encapsulates the entire frame and has no “Native VLAN”.
Weekly Open Ended Question #9
Mar 31st
The answer to the eighth question has been added to the post.
Ninth question:
What are the five EIGRP packet types, and what do they do?
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- Hello/Acks
- Updates
- Queries
- Replies
- Requests
Weekly Open Ended Question #8
Mar 18th
The answer to the seventh question has been added to the post.
Eighth question:
Name different ways to enable OSPF on a router.
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