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Networking Tutorials For Beginners
Networking Tutorials For Beginners
FUNDAMENTALS
AGENDA
10 MBPS
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BITRATE
DATA TRANSFER IN LANS
• BEFORE DATA IS TRANSFERRED, IT HAS TO GO THROUGH THE
FOLLOWING PROCESS:
1. LARGE CHUNKS OF DATA ARE BROKEN INTO SEGMENTS
2. ADDRESSING INFORMATION IS ADDED TO EACH SEGMENT,
MAKING IT A PACKET
3. PACKETS THEN TRAVEL TO THE NETWORK ADAPTER, WHERE A
LITTLE MORE INFORMATION
IS ADDED AND THEY BECOME ETHERNET FRAMES.
4. EACH FRAME IS THEN BROKEN INTO A DATA STREAM OF BITS – 0S
AND 1S – THAT TRAVEL OVER
PHYSICAL MEDIA
HOW DOES DATA KNOW
WHERE TO GO?
• MOST EVERY COMPUTER AND MANY OTHER
DEVICES HAVE AN INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP)
ADDRESS
• A TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF AN IPV4 ADDRESS WOULD
BE 192.168.1.1
• EVERY IP ADDRESS IS BROKEN DOWN INTO TWO
PARTS BY A SUBNET MASK
-- NETWORK ID 192.168.1
-- HOST ID 1