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What is virtual path?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Mar 6th, 2005

Along any transmission path from a given source to a given destination, a group of virtual circuits can be grouped together into what is called path.

Answered by: neha on: May 17th, 2012

Such a path is a path which virtual physically possible. The path from Source to Destination cover every Node. It makes virtual circuit.

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: May 1st, 2012

A bundle of virtual channels which share the same end point is known as virtual path.Each virtual path is identified by its unique virtual path identifier (VPI). All channels within a single path must...

Default port no. For telnet ___ ? snmp ____? ftp ____?

Asked By: harsha548 | Asked On: Oct 6th, 2007

Answered by: ramesh on: May 15th, 2012

TELNET - 23
FTP - 21
SNMP - 41

Answered by: brijbihari yadav on: Apr 21st, 2012

telnet- 229

FTP- 21

SNMP- 29

Explain 5-4-3 rule?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Mar 6th, 2005

In a ethernet network, between any two points on the network, there can be no more than five network segments or four repeaters, and of those five segments only three of segments can be populated.

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: May 1st, 2012

5-4-3 rule is a guideline for Ethernet computer networks along with the number of repeaters and segments on shared-access. The rule says that in an network there can be no more than five network segme...

What is multicast routing?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Mar 6th, 2005

Sending a message to a group is called multicasting, and its routing algorithm is called multicast routing.

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: May 1st, 2012

Sending one packet of message to several destinations is known as multicast routing and algorithm which defines its route is known as multicast routing algorithm.

What is mail gateway?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Mar 6th, 2005

It is a system that performs a protocol translation between different electronic mail delivery protocols.

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: May 1st, 2012

Mail gateway is a means which connect two or more electronic mail system and helps in transfer of message between them.During complex mapping and translation there is a store and forward scheme where ...

What is gateway-to-gateway protocol?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Mar 6th, 2005

It is a protocol formerly used to exchange routing information between internet core routers.

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: May 1st, 2012

Gateway-to-Gateway Protocol is similar to the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP).
It is a protocol used for routing datagrams between Internet gateways.Each GGP message has a field header that identifies the message type and the format of the remaining fields.

What is igp (interior gateway protocol)?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Mar 6th, 2005

It is any routing protocol used within an autonomous system.

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: May 1st, 2012

Within an autonomous system the interior gateway protocol (IGP) is used to exchange routing information.
There are two types of IGP
1.Distance-vector routing protocol
2.Link-state routing protocol.

What is virtual channel?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Mar 6th, 2005

Virtual channel is normally a connection from one source to one destination, although multicast connections are also permitted. The other name for virtual channel is virtual circuit.

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: May 1st, 2012

A virtual channel defines a single point to point connection, identified by its virtual channel identifier.An individual channel can be uniquely identified by its virtual channel and virtual path numb...

What is terminal emulation, in which layer it comes?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Mar 6th, 2005

Telnet is also called as terminal emulation. It belongs to application layer.

Answered by: Rajnish on: Apr 30th, 2012

What is terminal server and how to work in a terminal server.

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: Apr 19th, 2012

Terminal emulation is the ability to make one computer terminal appear like some other terminal. Terminal emulation is used to give the users the ability to log on and get direct access to legacy pro...

What is beaconing?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Mar 6th, 2005

The process that allows a network to self-repair networks problems. The stations on the network notify the other stations on the ring when they are not receiving the transmissions. Beaconing is used in token ring and fddi networks.

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: Apr 19th, 2012

Beaconing is a process which allows the network to render their network problems by them-selfToken ring and FDDI(Fibre Distributed Data Interface) networks make use of this process. It is also a sign...

How do you perform subnet addressing ?

Asked By: Shubham | Asked On: Oct 15th, 2007

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: Apr 19th, 2012

To create or to perform subnet addressing the local address should be divided into a number identifying the physical network and a number identifying the host on the subnet. Then the senders route m...

The network address made available to the transport layer should use a uniform numbering plan

Asked By: Rujul | Asked On: Mar 9th, 2007

1. In a session 2. In a lan3. In a wan 4. Across lan and wan

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: Apr 19th, 2012

Across LANs and WANs.

What services does the internet layer provide?

Asked By: monika19812 | Asked On: Jun 6th, 2011

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: Apr 19th, 2012

The internet layer packs data into data packets known as IP datagrams, which contain source and destination address information that is used to forward the datagrams between hosts and across networks....

What are headers and trailers? How are they added and removed?

Asked By: fahad | Asked On: Apr 11th, 2007

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: Mar 16th, 2012

Headers and trailers are the concepts of OSI model. Headers are information structures which identifies the information that follows, such as a block of bytes in communication. Trailer is the informat...

What are the types of transmission media?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Mar 6th, 2005

Signals are usually transmitted over some transmission media that are broadly classified in to two categories.Guided media:these are those that provide a conduit from one device to another that include twisted-pair, coaxial cable and fiber-optic cable. A signal traveling along any of these media is directed...

Answered by: Ambane Meregembo on: Mar 19th, 2012

What are the thre (3) types of transmission media? List out their advantages and distadvantages

Answered by: Sarel on: Sep 5th, 2011

Types of transmission media's are:
1) Bounded media
2) Unbounded media

Examples of transmission media.

1) Twisted pair, coax, fiber.

What is system recovery and system failure ?

Asked By: haseeburrahman | Asked On: Oct 17th, 2007

Answered by: on: Mar 16th, 2012

System recovery is a process of an overall plan for system recovery so that we are prepared if the system fails. System recovery is a tow part system,including system recovery backup and system recove...

What is the netted ip?

Asked By: ajay_meridium | Asked On: Apr 11th, 2007

Answered by: Sandhya.Kishan on: Mar 16th, 2012

using a single IP address and locally splitting it up so that this single network IP address can actually be used on several interconnected local networks is known as netted IP.

If you are given the ip address can u tell how many computers can be connected?What do you look at?

Asked By: thabo | Asked On: Aug 9th, 2006

Answered by: yogesh on: Mar 6th, 2012

1 ip address belong to 1 system only becz each and every system should know there own ip to communicate and transfer the data if u give same ip to more than 1 system it will throw u error.

Answered by: bhanuprakash on: Sep 30th, 2006

For Example in Class AIf IP address is 1.0.0.1 then Network bits is 8 bits and hosts bits are 24bits by calculating by formula 2n-2 (2power)Their fore for 1.0.0.1 the no computers can be connected 1,67,77,214

What is the default subnet mask for an ipv6 address ?

Asked By: kumar_pankaj | Asked On: Apr 26th, 2006

Answered by: dgt009 on: Feb 17th, 2012

IPV6 do not use subnetting bcoz it have enough IP.

Answered by: ED Kwiatkowski on: Jan 25th, 2012

IPV6 cannot subnet so there is no mask

What is the difference between domain & workgroup?

Asked By: santanu987 | Asked On: Dec 14th, 2007

Answered by: dgt009 on: Feb 17th, 2012

Domain can be accessed from anywhere in the world were internet is provided, while workgroup is a small network which can be accessed only if we are in that network.

Answered by: Kamlesh on: Nov 1st, 2011

Domain Name Service

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