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Apr 28 2013 08:09pm
Absolutely no idea how to do this. I've searched online and couldn't find an example where it uses Nets.

A lot of us emailed the professor about this problem explaining it's nothing like what we learned and his generic reply didn't help at all.

Maybe somebody here might be able to help me out.



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I've received several emails re: question 2 and some confusion it has caused. That was not my intention.

This question comes from another (edition of the) book, and therefore it uses a slightly different notation. But it is similar in spirit to figure 20.6. Just think if the numbers under the 'Net' columns as Net IDs that correspond to which networks can be reached (rather than the router that connects the network to the rest of the Internet -- which is our textbook's interpretation).

I hope this helps.
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Apr 28 2013 10:10pm
One bit of info I found (hop does not mean jump from router to router):

"the hop count is the number of routing devices between the starting node and the destination node" not including these starting and destination nodes.

When a packet goes through a router, the hop count increases by one.


/edit: Another quote: "If the packet goes from one workstation on a LAN to another workstation on the same LAN, then no routers are involved and the hop count = 0."

//edit: The following quote appears incorrect to me: "Hop count: The number of point-to-point links in a transmission path."




This post was edited by Dmon_Hunter on Apr 28 2013 10:22pm
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Apr 28 2013 10:23pm
Yeah I actually found the old book + solution manual and they have a question asking something similar.



So pretty much what I did. I added 1hop to the table with the packet arriving from C. So the new Hop count is 3, 7, 5, 4, 6. Then for the new table I guess you replace higher hop counts with lower ones.

So I got
Net/Count/Next
2 - 3 - C
3 - 6 - E
4 - 3 - D
5 - 4 - C
8 - 5 - D

This post was edited by Ryans on Apr 28 2013 10:24pm
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