Ethernet and Fast Ethernet
This chart give you an idea of the range
of Ethernet protocols including their data rate, maximum segment
length, and medium.
Ethernet has survived as an essential media technology because of its tremendous flexibility and its relative simplicity to implement and understand. Although other technologies have been touted as likely replacements, network managers have turned to Ethernet and its derivatives as effective solutions for a range of campus implementation requirements. To resolve Ethernet’s limitations, innovators (and standards bodies) have created progressively larger Ethernet pipes. Critics might dismiss Ethernet as a technology that cannot scale, but its underlying transmission scheme continues to be one of the principal means of transporting data for contemporary campus applications.
The most popular today is 10BaseT and 100BaseT… 10Mbps and 100Mbps respectively using UTP wiring.
Let’s take a look at how Ethernet works.
Ethernet has survived as an essential media technology because of its tremendous flexibility and its relative simplicity to implement and understand. Although other technologies have been touted as likely replacements, network managers have turned to Ethernet and its derivatives as effective solutions for a range of campus implementation requirements. To resolve Ethernet’s limitations, innovators (and standards bodies) have created progressively larger Ethernet pipes. Critics might dismiss Ethernet as a technology that cannot scale, but its underlying transmission scheme continues to be one of the principal means of transporting data for contemporary campus applications.
The most popular today is 10BaseT and 100BaseT… 10Mbps and 100Mbps respectively using UTP wiring.
Let’s take a look at how Ethernet works.
Ethernet Operation
Example:-
Let’s say in our example here that
station A is going to send information to station D. Station
A will listen through its NIC card to the network. If no other
users are using the network, station A will go ahead and send
its message out on to the network. Stations B and C and D
will all receive the communication.
At the data link layer it will inspect the
MAC address. Upon inspection station D will see that the MAC
address matches its own and then will process the information
up through the rest of the layers of the seven layer model.
As for stations B & C, they too will
pull this packet up to their data link layers and inspect
the MAC addresses. Upon inspection they will see that there
is no match between the data link layer MAC address for which
it is intended and their own MAC address and will proceed
to dump the packet.
Ethernet Broadcast
Broadcasting is a powerful tool that sends
a single frame to many stations at the same time. Broadcasting
uses a data link destination address of all 1s. In this example,
station A transmits a frame with a destination address of
all 1s, stations B, C, and D all receive and pass the frame
to their respective upper layers for further processing.
When improperly used, however, broadcasting can seriously impact the performance of stations by interrupting them unnecessarily. For this reason, broadcasts should be used only when the MAC address of the destination is unknown or when the destination is all stations.
When improperly used, however, broadcasting can seriously impact the performance of stations by interrupting them unnecessarily. For this reason, broadcasts should be used only when the MAC address of the destination is unknown or when the destination is all stations.
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