Ch 5 Flashcards
LLC standard
802.2
MAC standard
802.3
MAC sub layer responsibility
data encapsulation
media access control
MAC data encapsulation functions
frame delimiting
addressing
error detection
media access control
placement and removal of frames in media. Related to CMSA/CD
CMSA/CD
carrier sense multiple access collision detection
Ethernet II structure
Preamble 8 Dest 6 Src 6 Type 2 Data 46 - 1500 FCS - 4
Min and max frame size
64 - 1518
preamble not counted
common EtherType fields
x0800 IPv4
x86DD IPv6
x0806 ARP
OUI
organizationally unique identifier
switch fabric
integrated circuits and machine programming that creates data paths between devices
CAM
content addressable memory
unknown unicast
when switch forwards frame out of all ports except incoming
store-and-forward
switch receives entire frame
cut-through
switch forwards frame before it is totally received. Buffers just enough to read destination MAC to know what port to forward the data to.