Category Archives: Ethernet

History: The features of Ethernet are as follows: Advantages of using wired Ethernet network • It is very reliable.• Ethernet network makes use of firewalls for the security of the data.• Data is transmitted and received at very high speed.• It is very easy to use the wired network. Disadvantages of using wired Ethernet networkContinue reading “Ethernet”

10.0.1.0/24 PC-A, Switch-A, and Router-A  10.0.2.0/24 Router-A, Hub-A, and Router-B   10.0.3.0/24 Router-B, Switch-B, and PC-B Goal : How PC-A acquires its IP addressing information using DHCP, how DNS works to resolve names, how PC-A and PC-B use TCP to perform telnet, how the three-way handshake occurs, how the switches switch frames, and how the routersContinue reading “Complete End-End connection Establishment”

Short introduction to TCP protocol The TCP protocol is used by a large majority of client/server applications like the millions of Internet Web servers. TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol and works on the transport network IP (Internet Protocol). TCP is used to exchange data reliably through mechanisms of sequence and acknowledgment, error detection, errorContinue reading “Establishment of a TCP connection, state diagram”

A VLAN is a group of devices in the same broadcast domain or subnet. VLANs are good at logically separating/segmenting traffic between different groups of users. VLANs contain/isolate broadcast traffic, where you need a router to move traffic between VLANs. VLANs create separate broadcast domains: they increase the number of broadcast domains, but decrease theContinue reading “Vlan”