Question 1
Explanation
After receiving a packet, the router will keep the source and destination IP addresses (10.1.3.3 and 10.1.2.2, respectively) while change the source MAC address (to the MAC address of its outgoing interface) and the destination MAC address (to the MAC address of the next-hop interface). Therefore when the packet leaves Router1, the source MAC address must be the MAC address of the outgoing interface of Router1 (0000.000c.0124) and the destination MAC address must be the MAC of fa0/1 of R2 (0000.000c.0123).
Question 2
Explanation
A static route with 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 will become a default route. The default route means: “send all traffic to this IP address”. So the default route “ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.16.2.2″ will send all traffic to 172.16.2.2.
Question 3
Explanation
The Administrative Distance (AD) parameter must be put at the end of the “ip route” command. The default AD is 1.
Question 4
Explanation
This router only have directly connected networks (symbolized by letter “C”) and one default route out of Serial0/0. Maybe this is a stub router with only one connection to the Headquarter or to the Internet.
Question 5
Explanation
In this topology, R2 is a stub router with only one connection to the HQ network so the best way to configure routing is to set a static route (default route) to R1.
Question 6
Explanation
Host A is in a different subnet of SW-A so SW-A does not know how to send data to host A so it needs to be assigned with a default gateway. The command to assign a default gateway to a switch is “ip default-gateway “. Please notice this command only has effect when “ip routing” is disabled on SW-A.
Question 7
Explanation
The default gateway of Host A should be the connected interface of the router, except host A is connected with a Layer 3 switch. In this case, Switch A is a pure Layer 2 switch and Switch A IP address is just for management purpose.