CS456/556 - Internet Services - Week 5 Assignment

[e-mail your answers to summers_wayne@ColumbusState.edu by 11:00 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 30th]

1. Why is it useful to have more than one possible path through a network for each pair of computers?
   
2. Use the tracert instruction to find the route a connection takes from here to
   1. www.jaring.my
   2. www.indiana.edu
   
   Do this at least twice at different times on different days. Compare your results.
   
3. Describe the importance and function of routers in the functioning of the Internet.
   
4. What is needed to connect a LAN to the Internet? Be specific.

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