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Centralised: The central machine has the highest priority and all the local machine will have the same priority. Distributed: All has equal priority unlike the centralised.
LAN: inside a builing or a smaller area. MAN: City to city Two lans in different locations . using a device like router. WAN: Two different MAN are connected to from wan. All over the world.
Devices: Layer1 devices: HUB Cables NIC card repeater Layer2 devices: Switch Bridge Layer3 devices: Router Switch (latest )
Mac address 48 bit address hexadecimal values (12 digit) 24 bit company code 24 bit serial code
NIC: Used to amplify the signal Used to connect system to network Has ROM which stores the mac address Data is sent serially And data is received parallely
Bridge: Connecting two different LANs Only between two different networks Switch: Connecting