Network Management Assignment: Switching, Routing, and Subnetting

This document presents a solution to a network management assignment. The assignment covers fundamental networking concepts, including how switches handle frames and update address tables, differentiating between layer 2 and layer 3 operations in the OSI model, and the role of subnet masks. It also explores supported operating systems and provides a subnetting table detailing network names, sizes, allocated sizes, address masks, and assignable IP ranges. The solution references key academic sources to support its claims and provide a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter.

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Table of Contents
Question 1..................................................................................................................................3
Question 2..................................................................................................................................3
Question 3..................................................................................................................................3
Question 4..................................................................................................................................3
Question 5..................................................................................................................................3
References..................................................................................................................................4

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Question 1
When a switch receives a frame, it directly updates the address table with the source
MAC address and the port on which it received the frame. If the destination MAC address is
not on its MAC address table (unknown unicast), it basically floods the frame to all the port,
except the port on which the frame is received (Afanasyev et al., 2014).
Question 2
The traditional switch basically operates at the layer 2 of the OSI model, this is where
the packets are send to a specific switch port based on the MAC address destination. Routing
operating on the layer 3, where packets are basically send to a specific next hop IT address
which is based on the IP address (Davies, 2012).
Question 3
The subnet mask of the local host will always check whether the packet has been send
or not. Whether this is used to discover the source address to use when the sending of the
packing is done or I used to determine if the destination host really exist within the same
subnet as the sender, the subnet mask would be utilized in this way (Afanasyev et al., 2014).
Question 4
The computer operating that would be supported can be any operating system. For
example, windows 7 and window server 2008 (Decusatis, Carranza & DeCusatis, 2012).
Question 5
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References
Afanasyev, A., Burke, J., Zhang, L., Claffy, K., Wang, L., Jacobson, V., ... & Zhang, B.
(2014). Named data networking. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication
Review, 44(3), 66-73.
Davies, J. (2012). Understanding ipv6. Pearson Education.
Decusatis, C. J. S., Carranza, A., & DeCusatis, C. M. (2012). Communication within clouds:
open standards and proprietary protocols for data center networking. IEEE
Communications Magazine, 50(9).