Networking Domain Flashcards
I: LAYER 2
Layer 2 (data link layer) the protocol you’re likely most familiar with is Ethernet. Devices in an Ethernet network are identified by a MAC (media access control) address, which is generally hardcoded to a particular device and doesn’t normally change.
I: LAYER 4
Layer 4 (transport layer) deals with the coordination of the data transfer between end systems and hosts. The best-known example of the Transport Layer is the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), which is built on top of the Internet Protocol (IP), commonly known as TCP/IP.
I: DNS
DNS is the phonebook of the Internet. Humans access information online through domain names. Web browsers interact through Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. DNS translates domain names to IP addresses so browsers can load Internet resources.
I: WWW.DOMAIN.COM
- DNS lookup to find the IP address of the server
- Browser initiates a TCP connection with the server
- Browser sends an HTTP request to the server
- Server handles the incoming request
- Browser receives the HTTP response
- Browser displays the html content
- Client interaction with server
I: TCP CONNECTION
To establish a connection, the three-way (or 3-step) handshake occurs:
SYN
SYN-ACK
ACK
I: VLANs
is any broadcast domain that is partitioned and isolated in a computer network at the data link layer (OSI layer 2).
I: BGP
BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) are the core routing protocol of the internet and responsible to maintain a table of Internet protocol networks.
I: SWITCH
Switch facilitates the sharing of resources by connecting all the devices, including computers, printers, and servers, in a network.
I: MPLS
is a protocol-agnostic routing technique designed to speed up and shape traffic flows across enterprise-wide area and service provider networks.
Layer 2 point to point – is a cost effective and flexible alternative to high bandwidth leased lines.
Layer 3 IP/VPN – suitable for large multi-site enterprise, i.e. retail chains, which deploy a large number of low bandwidth sites or large corporates with global offices.
I: CIDR
CIDR which stands for Classless Inter-Domain Routing, is an IP addressing scheme that improves the allocation of IP addresses. It replaces the old system based on classes A, B, and C (8/16/24).
- Class A - Over 16 million host identifiers
- Class B - 65,535 host identifiers
- Class C - 254 host identifiers
The problem would commonly occur when an organization required more than 254 host machines and therefore would no longer fall into class C but rather class B.
I: UNICAST
Unicast many streams of IP packets that move across networks flow from a single point, such as a website server, to a single endpoint such as a client PC. This is the most common form of information transference on networks.
I: SUBNETTING
is a logical subdivision of an IP network. The practice of dividing a network into two or more networks is called subnetting.
I: PRIVATE SUBNET
A private subnet could not connect to internet. However, the instances could communicate with other instances within the VPC CIDR. AWS provides an option to allow the instance within private subnet to connect to internet through Network Address Translation (NAT) instance or NAT gateway.
I: NAT
NAT is to act as an agent between the Internet (or public network) and a local network (or private network), which means that only a single unique IP address is required to represent an entire group of computers to anything outside their networK.
I: IPSEC VPN
enables connections between an authorized remote host and any system inside the enterprise perimeter.
I: APPLICATION LOAD BALANCER
Application LB (L7) is best suited for load balancing of HTTP and HTTPS traffic and provides advanced request routing targeted at the delivery of modern application architectures, including microservices and containers. Operating at the individual request level (Layer 7), Application Load Balancer routes traffic to targets within Amazon VPC based on the content of the request.
I: RPO
refers to the amount of data that can be lost within a period most relevant to a business, before significant harm occurs, from the point of a critical event to the most preceding backup.
I: TRACE ROUTE
Trace Route will map the route that data takes from a point in a network to a specific IP server.
I: DIRECT CONNECT
AWS Direct Connect makes it easy to establish a dedicated connection from an on-premises network to Amazon VPC.