CS 291 - Computer Networks
Spring 1997

Assignment 4 -- Due March 3

Read Chapter 4 in the Tanenbaum text and answer the following questions. These will reinforce and add some substance to our Tuesday discussions of this chapter. You may turn them in either in hardcopy or by e-mail to allen@polar.
  1. Do problems # 9, 17, 18, 19, 22, 28, 37, and 38 on page 334 of the text.

  2. Among the LANs at Bowdoin, which of the 802.3 (CSMA/CD), 802.4 (token bus), and 802.5 (token ring) data link protocols are used? Identify the location and purpose of at least two bridges that connect two or more LANs in the Bowdoin network. (You may want to talk with Charles Banks in the Computing Center to get more perspective on this question.)