CST 311 Week 6

CST 311 Week 6

This week was insightfull as I got to learn about the alorithms behind routing. I found reading about the network layer to be the most fascinating as I like to learn how things work. We learned about the link state algorithm and distance vector algorithm. To learn how routers actually manage routing was fascinating. I also learned that although these algorithms are usefull, they do not scale to the millions of host on the internet. For this reason, the Border Gateway Protocol is implemented. The differences between, unicast, broadcast, multicast and anycast were explored. Also the differences between IPv6 and IPv4 were explored. I liked the refresher on converting binary to hexidecimal by using digit weights of 8 4 2 1. Finally, Internet Protocol Security was also explored.