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Network I Lesson 6

- The lesson covers network devices like repeaters, hubs, bridges and their functions and disadvantages. Repeaters retransmit all data out all ports causing increased traffic and collisions. Hubs are multiport repeaters that connect devices in a star topology but have less than optimal performance due to collisions. Bridges filter traffic to eliminate unnecessary traffic and collisions by only forwarding packets based on destination MAC addresses.

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Network I Lesson 6

- The lesson covers network devices like repeaters, hubs, bridges and their functions and disadvantages. Repeaters retransmit all data out all ports causing increased traffic and collisions. Hubs are multiport repeaters that connect devices in a star topology but have less than optimal performance due to collisions. Bridges filter traffic to eliminate unnecessary traffic and collisions by only forwarding packets based on destination MAC addresses.

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Network I Lesson 6

Student Objectives: After completing this lesson, students will be able to: assess the disadvantages of using a repeater summarize what a hub is and does diagram a network using a hub define collision analyze the impact of data collisions on a network formulate an analogy about network backoffs explain how a bridge improves network communication evaluate disadvantages of using a bridge evaluate how routing tables affect network communication

Terms: filter - screens network traffic for certain characteristics - the address of the source and destination - and determines whether to forward or discard that traffic based on established criteria port - interface on an internetworking device segments - section of a network bounded by bridges, routers or switches hubs - device that serves as the center of a star topology- contains multiple modules of internetwork equipment - multiport repeater collision - the result of 2 nodes transmitting simultaneously - the frames from each device are damaged when they meet the physical media collision domain - area where frames that have collided are propagated (passed along) - hubs and repeaters propagate collisions backoff - retransmission delay enforced when a collision occurs algorithm - well defined process for solving a problem bridge - device that connects and passes packets between 2 network segments - will filter, forward or flood an incoming frame - based on its MAC address - more intelligent than a hub routing table - table that keeps track of routes to particular network destinations and in some cases metrics associated with the route (how far) Lesson Summary: repeaters can filter network traffic - the send data out all ports - network traffic increases and t has less than optimal performance if networks connected by one cable or network has no filter- more than one user may send data at a time - not okay in Ethernet - Ethernet allows only 1 data packed at a time this causes a collision and data is damaged NIC issues a back off when a collision occurs - algorithm determines how long the backoff will be too much traffic = lots of collisions = less than optimal performance bridges eliminate unnecessary traffic and minimize collisions bridges are concerned only with passing or not passing packets - based on destination MAC address - therefore they can rapidly forward information packets that operate at different layer 2 protocols may be passed

bridges build tables of all MAC addresses on a network - when data comes along - the bridge checks the MAC address and if it finds it in it table it doesn forward the message any s t further - it not found - it forwards it down the line

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