Written Lab

Provide the answers to the following questions:

1. What is the valid range used for a class C private IP address?

2. Name some of the benefits of IPv6 over IPv4.

3. What is the term for the auto-configuration technology responsible for addresses that start with 169.254?

4. What defines a unicast address?

5. What defines a multicast address?

6. What is the name for a 48-bit (6-byte) numerical address physically assigned to a network interface, such as a NIC?

7. What gives IPv6 the ability to reference more addresses than IPv4?

8. What is the private address range for class B networks?

9. What is the Class C range of values for the first octet in decimal and in binary?

10. What is the 127.0.0.1 address used for?

You can find the answers in Appendix B.