COLLEGE OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES

Midterm Assessment Spring 2021 Semester

Class Id 106406 Course Title Routing and Switching
Program MCS Campus / Shift Main Campus / Morning
th
Date 9 – March 2021 Total points 35
Duration 02 hours Faculty Name Sanjay Kumar
Student Id 10484 Student Name Muhammad Yousuf khan

Instructions:
• Filling out Student-ID and Student-Name on exam header is mandatory.
• Do not remove or change any part of exam header or question paper.
• Write down your answers in given space or at the end of exam paper with proper title “Answer
for Question# _ _”.
• Answers should be formatted correctly (font size, alignment and etc)
• Handwritten text or image should be on A4 size page with clear visibility of contents.
• Only PDF format is accepted (Student are advise to install necessary software)
• In case of CHEATING, COPIED material or any unfair means would result in negative marking
or ZERO.
 A mandatory recorded viva session will be conducted to ascertain the quality of answer scripts
where deemed necessary.

 Caution: Duration to perform Midterm Assessment is 02 hours only. Extra 01 hour is given to
cater all kinds of odds in submission of Answer-sheet. Therefore, if you failed to upload
answer sheet on LMS (in PDF format) within 03 hours limit, you would be considered as
ABSENT/FAILED.

Faculty Signature

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Question # 1: (07 Marks)
a) Write the simple static route configuration of router A for destination
172.100.100.0/30,172.70.70.0/30
b) Write the floating static route configuration of router E for destination 172.90.90.0/30,172.40.40.0/30
and 172.50.50.0/30
c) Write the Recursive Table look up of router D5 for destination 172.90.90.0/30,172.80.80.0/30 and
172.60.60.0/30

Fig#01

Question # 2: (07 Marks)

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Configure IGRP with unequal cost load balancing on router A to destination 1.1.5.1 shown in
fig#3, show all necessary calculations as well.

Fig#2

Table#1

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Question # 2 Answer

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Question # 3: (05 Marks)

a) In fig#04 show routing table for distance vector protocol converge hop by hop.

fig#03

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Answer question # 3

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Question # 4: (6 Marks)

Referring to fig#4 configure the network use supporting commands.

a) Configure RIP to send updates across link every 6 minutes. You are supposed to choose specific
timer for this and timer must be changed between Router HQ and Router BAHL.
b) Use commands to make network 192.168.4.0 unreachable from router HBL and network
192.168.3.0 should be unreachable from router BAHL.

Fig#04

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Question # 5: (10 Marks)
Answer the following questions.
a) Write the command for internetwork shown fig#05 such that no rip updates exchange between
Router MALIR and DEFENCE but all other routers can exchange the updates.

Fig#5
b) Briefly explain with solid reason why RIP cannot perform unequal load balancing?

Answer
RIP is a distance-vector routing protocol that uses router hop count as the metric. RIP
is a classful routing protocol that does not support VLSMs or CID. RIP does NOT
support unequal cost load balancing, and does not take the bandwidth of the link into
consideration, so this is the usual effect. In some cases, it might be desirable for the
network administrator to increase the metric of the slower link, so as to force the
router to prefer the better link, but this means all the traffic would pass through just
one link.

c) Why RIP 1 cannot advertise the subnet of network also explain how it manages to forward the
packets without subnet information discus all possible methods.
d) Perform the route summarization of all networks mentioned in the topology of fig#6

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 fig#6
Anserwe
Route summary
10.10.1.0/24
10.10.0.0/24
10.10.2.0/24
10.10.3.0/24

Route summary will be

10.10.0.0/22

e) Why we need Extension of IGRP and discus chief disadvantages due to which IGRP is
extended to EIGRP.

Answer

IGRP (Interior Gateway Routing Protocol) and EIGRP (Enhanced EIGRP) are the two routing
protocols used in routing operations. The IGRP is a distance vector interior gateway routing
protocols, but the EIGRP incorporates the features of the link state routing with the distance
vector routing protocol. There are several differences between the IGRP and EIGRP, priorly
IGRP employs a classful routing method while EIGRP is a classless routing protocol. EIGRP
provides better support for the vast scale network as compared to IGRP.

The biggest drawback of IGRP (and EIGRP) is that it’s a proprietary protocol, which means it is
implemented only by Cisco routers. If all you have on your network are Cisco devices, using
IGRP is not a problem.

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