Question 3 (b)
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This is the list of all networks that the router knows about, their metric (the router’s preference for them), and how to get there. C IP addresses are directly connected to the router and R IP addresses are those that the router knows about using RIP.
eg. from R1 routing table:
R 192.168.20.0/24 [120/1] via 192.168.1.2, 00:00:02, Serial0/0/0
This means that R1 learned of the connection via RIP protocol from 192.168.1.2 on the Serial0/0/0 interface 2 seconds ago. The [120/1] is the administrative distance used to determine what routing protocol should be used and how much to trust them.
Question 4 (a) In the IP address 172.16.0.0/12, the numerical value after the forward slash denotes the number of bits that are used as part of the network address. In this case it is 12. This means that the first 12 bits are used for th…(short extract)