1.3 Explain the concepts and characteristics of routing and switching. Flashcards
Broadcast domains
A set of devices on a network that can hear broadcast traffic from each other.
ARP Requests
Broadcasts Look to resolve a known IP addresses by finding an unknown mac address of that device. they are always broadcast and heard by every device on the network.
How is an ARP request sent?
ARP broadcasts a request packet to all the machines on the LAN and asks if any of the machines are using that particular IP address.
CSMA/CD
Carier sense multiple access with collision detection.
A media access control method that was widely used in Early Ethernet technology/LANs when there used to be shared Bus Topology and each node ( Computers) were connected By Coaxial Cables. This protocol decides which station will transmit when so that data reaches the destination without corruption.
CSMA/CA
Carier sense multiple access with collision avoidance.
Used by Wi-Fi
Collision domains
all devices that can have their messages collide with messages from other deivces.
Full Duplex comminications
Devices can transmit to the switch port and switch port cna send to device at the same time.
WiFi networks are based on
IEEE 802.11 standards
Hidden node problem
Wireless devices can both be of a AP but not each other. They cant sense when the other is talking so can send traffic to the AP at the same time creating a collision.
what is a PDU
(Protocol Data Unit) Represents a specific set of data at each layer.
PDU of layer 7
data
PDU of layer 6
data
PDU of layer 5
data
PDU of layer 4
segment or datagram
PDU of layer 3
packet
PDU of layer 2
frame
PDU of layer 1
bits/bytes
Maximum transmission unit (MTU) of ethernet
Max 1500 bytes consisting of an IP header and data can be placed inside of an Ethernet frame.
multicast
single device sends a packet to a group of interestd computers
unicast
one device sends a message directoly to another device
VLANS
Segment a network into various departments and components.
what is trunking 802.1q
process of transferring VLAN traffic between two or more switches.
trunk port
port on a switch configured to carry all traffic regardless of VLAN number. Enables same vlans hosted on multiple switches to talk to each other.0
802.1q tagging standard
allows frames to e sent within a VLAN.
NAT
Network Address Translation. a process that enables one, unique IP address to represent an entire group of computers. In network address translation, a network device, often a router or NAT firewall, assigns a computer or computers inside a private network a public address.
DMZ
area of the network carved out by a single or multiple firewalls to provide a special place on the network servers need to be publicly accessible from the internet.