Qyestions from interview

jsolari

I was asked some technical questions today in an interview that sort of caught me offguard.

These are both on a campus LAN environments -

1. You have a stack of switches with say 2000 ports going to a building with wall drops. One person plugs a linksys router into the network (backwards) - LAN into the wall drop and the WAN port on the linksys to the computer. People around that linksys router on other drops no do not have internet either. How would you find the linksys router.

2. Stack of switches - lets name them 1,2,3,4 from top to bottom. All connected with cross over cables. Switch 1 has a wireless connection, while 4 has a fiber connections - both back to the same lan. Switches 1/2 default to the wireless connection, while 3/4 default to the fiber connection. Unplug one connection and they all go to the only connection left. Why is this and how would you fix this.


sry for the typo in my title.

Paul Boz

More importantly, how did you answer the questions?