Network Fundamentals Flashcards
What is a Host?
Device at the edge of the network that’s creating the data and receiving
Everything Between sending and receiving is called?
Network Infrastructure
What is a logical topology?
How devices appear connected to the user
What is a Bus Topology?
All devices are aware of each other on the network and talk directly
What is a Star Topology and what are they connected to?
All devices connected to an access device. IE a switch
What is a Ring Topology?
Big loop where devices can see each other and can talk to each other.
What does fully meshed mean?
Everyone connected to the network can talk with each other
What is partially meshed?
The topology is segmented to where only certain subnets are able to talks with each other.
What is the 3 layer Topology design?
- Access Layer: Device that gives the Frontline (computers, laptops) connectivity.
- Distribution Layer: Routers mainly, network infrastructure devices, sub divide networks and routing
- Core Layer: network backbone, high speed network connection
What is a firewall?
Inline system that enforce an access control policy between various network segments defined as security zones.
What is a protocol?
Rules of operation
What are the 7 layers of the OSI model and what acronym do you use to remember them?
- Physical, Please
- Data Link, Do
- Network, Not
- Transport, Throw
- Session, Sausage
- Presentation, Pizza
- Application, Away
What happens in the application layer(7)?
- Interacts with user applications
- provides initial network connection for use applications.
- Manages the application connection between host
What all happens in the presentation layer (6)?
- Performs encryption within an application.
- Ensures that data is presented correctly
- performs translation of cross-platform standards that may be understood by the local machine. IE .jpg to .png and .wav to .mp3
What all happens in the session layer (5)?
- Helps establish session with reserved port numbers.
- Session identifier is assigned
- Tracks connections between host and remote computer/servers
What are the well known port ranges?
0 - 1023
What is the registered port range?
1024 - 65535
What is an ephemeral port?
Random one time port that’s used in a session. IE: having chrome open with multiple tabs to the same site. Each tab has it’s own ephemeral port as an identifier.
What is the HTTP port?
Port 80
What is the HTTPS port?
Port 443
What is the DNS port?
Port 53
What are the FTP ports?
Port 20 and 21
What is the Telnet port?
Port 23
What layer does TCP run at?
Layer 4, transport layer
What all happens at the transport layer (4)?
- Fragmentation
- Sequencing and reassembling
- Windowing, buffering, congestion avoidance
- Error Correction
What is TCP?
Transmission control Protocol
- Connection Oriented - Verifies destination exist first
- Reliable
- Protocol #6
What is UDP?
User Datagram Protocol
- Connection-less - just sends the data regardless
- Unreliable
- Protocol #17
What all happens at the network layer (3)?
- Segmentation of network topology into logical portions
- Logical addressing
- Path Discovery and Selection
What is a routed protocol and examples of them?
Protocols that are used for identification.
- IP
- IPS
- AppleTalk
Routed - Where I am on the network and where the data needs to be sent
What is a routing protocol and examples of them?
Protocols that get the best path for the routed protocols
- EIGRP
- OSPF
Routing - Learns about about other networks and where they are and the best path to it
What all happens in the data link layer(2)?
- Media Access Control - The rules of putting stuff on the wire and when it’s ok to start or stop.
- Link layer addressing - On this link/wire how do we address ourself?
- Error Checking
What devices are used at the data link layer?
Switches and bridges
What all happens at the physical layer (1)?
- Electrical signals carried over cable.
What devices are used at the physical layer?
Hubs
Repeaters
NIC’s
Cabling
What is a PDU?
Protocol Data Unit - the final structured data unit created by an OSI layer
How are PDU’s received?
PDU’s that are created at a certain layer are meant to be received by the same layer on the receiving device
What is a layer 4 TCP PDU called?
Segment
What is a layer 4 UDP PDU called?
Datagram
What is a layer 3 PDU called?
Packet
What is a layer 2 PDU called?
Frame
What is encapsulation?
As each layer receives a PDU from the layer above it headers are added
What is decapsulation?
As each layer receives a PDU from the layer below it headers are then inspected and removed.
What layer does IPv4 Reside at?
Layer 3 (network Layer)
What is needed for a layer 3 protocol to be considered routed?
It has to be able to give a node (your computer/laptop) an address and that address has to be part network and part host and also has to provide a destination address.
A single 1 or 0 is called?
Bit
What are 8 bits called?
Byte
What happens when a sent packet is too large for a protocols MTU?
It can be fragmented down to an acceptable size. Each fragment is given a number in the identification field that it know that it was fragmented and also what order to put things back together in.
What helps put the packet fragments back in order if too large for a MTU?
Flag and fragment offset