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The setup you describe is possible and does not even surprise me for a SBS setup. I can only guess but I would say the SBS server act as DHCP server and Router. You can remove it and connect the fir …

First, the data you provide is not a routing table. … But it is irrelevant for routing decision performed by the router. So we have to assume the interface column is what matters. …

It depends on your main gatway and on your hosts. Normally in this situation the main gateway will issue an ICMP redirect message to the host, with the IP address of the VPN gateway, informing the ho …

No you can't perform cache at the TCP/IP level. This simply not how it works. (it's a poor parallel, but it's little bit like asking if you could cache phone calls because several people will use the …

If the DSL modem doesn't provide PPPoE pass-trough but does have a "DMZ" option, I.E. forwarding all incoming traffic to an internal IP, you can also use double-NAT. You set a fixed private IP on the …

You can use private IP between two public IP network as long as you do not send to the internet packets with a private address as source. It's quite common.

As you said you cannot have a network that has a custom number of available IP addresses. There may be various way to effectively limit the number of possible hosts on the networks but it greatly dep …

You could use a switch with the capability to mirror several ports to a single one. This feature is called "mirroring" or "SPAN", it will replicate the traffic from mirrored port(s) to the mirroring …

A - Look at RFC0791 B - Search for the IP headers definition and length C - draw your own conclusions Note that in real world there's no path as long as 300 hops. If I remember correctly the longes …

Your assumption is wrong, the mac address of the original host has been stripped away by the first router. It could be in the payload (i.e. the DATA contains in the packet) but only if the program th …

If the 10G and 1G networks are not interconnected at layer 2, then you need to have routing between them. …

The basis of routing is that the more specific match is the primary criteria. So the /23 prefix will be preferred. eBGP is used to exchange routes between AS. … How routing is performed inside an AS is up to the owner of the AS, he can do whatever he wants, even static routing (or even iBGP). …

Pros: simpler cabling less encumbrance single point of administration Cons: single point of failure cannot upgrade a single device at a time. can be trickier to troubleshoot Depending of the …

Router can and do use the transport layer for various tasks. For example to manage the router you usually connect to it via SSH which use TCP. So, to forward a packet from a network to another, the …

The most basic topology you can build involving a router is Host A -- Interface 0 [Router] Interface 1 -- Host B If you set: Host A IP address: 192.168.0.1 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 1 …