1. What is a packet?
Parts of the information sent

2. What is a configuration table?
A configuration table is a collection of information

3. What are the two jobs of a router?
The router ensures that information doesn't go where it's not needed. This is crucial for keeping large volumes of data from clogging the connections of "innocent bystanders."
The router makes sure that information does make it to the intended destination.

4. Under “Transmitting Packets” what different routes (e.g. copper wiring) may information take?

5. The largest routers used to handle data at the major traffic points on the Internet are most like _________ rather than office routers.

6. Routing Packets: What is a subnet mask?
The subnet mask looks like an IP address and usually reads "255.255.255.0." This tells the router that all messages with the sender and receiver having an address sharing the first three groups of numbers are on the same network, and shouldn't be sent out to another network.

7. What is a logical address?
describes a way someone can get a message to you
8. What is a MAC Address?
Media Access Control