The document discusses several key concepts regarding the MAC sublayer:
1. The MAC sublayer handles data encapsulation, addressing, and error detection for Ethernet frames. It includes the source and destination MAC addresses in each frame.
2. MAC addresses are unique 48-bit identifiers for each network interface. They include an OUI code and vendor-assigned value to ensure uniqueness.
3. The MAC sublayer uses different access methods like CSMA/CD for shared media and does not require access control on switched networks with full duplex connections.
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Itn Module 7
The document discusses several key concepts regarding the MAC sublayer:
1. The MAC sublayer handles data encapsulation, addressing, and error detection for Ethernet frames. It includes the source and destination MAC addresses in each frame.
2. MAC addresses are unique 48-bit identifiers for each network interface. They include an OUI code and vendor-assigned value to ensure uniqueness.
3. The MAC sublayer uses different access methods like CSMA/CD for shared media and does not require access control on switched networks with full duplex connections.
></rich-text></fields><cards><card><field name='Frente'><p>What can you say about data encapsulation on the MAC Sublayer?</p></field><field name='Verso'><ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Ethernet frame - </strong>this is the internal structure of the Ethernet frame</li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Ethernet Addressing - </strong>the Ethernet frame includes both a source and a destination MAC address to deliver the Ethernet frame from Ethernet NIC to Ethernet NIC on the same LAN</li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Ethernet Error detection - </strong>The Ethernet frame includes a frame check sequence (FCS) trailer used for error detection</li> </ul></field></card><card><field name='Frente'><p>What can you say about Ethernet MAC address?</p> <p>{{blob a16a0103fdccf1d7eba450a3fe1337fe65844f1f596e3d97a3932529c1aace60} }</p></field><field name='Verso'><ul> <li class="p1" style="text-align: justify;">In an Ethernet LAN, every network device is connected to the same, shared media. MAC addressing provides a method for device identification at the data link layer of the OSI model.</li> <li class="p1" style="text-align: justify;">An Ethernet MAC address is a 48-bit address expressed using 12 hexadecimal digits. Because a byte equals 8 bits, we can also say that a MAC address is 6 bytes in length.</li> <li class="p1" style="text-align: justify;">All MAC addresses must be unique to the Ethernet device or Ethernet interface. To ensure <span class="s1">this, all vendors that sell Ethernet devices must register with the IEEE to obtain a unique 6 </span>hexadecimal (i.e., 24-bit or 3-byte) code called the organizationally unique identifier (OUI).</li> <li class="p1" style="text-align: justify;">An Ethernet MAC address consists of a 6 hexadecimal vendor OUI code followed by a 6 hexadecimal vendor-assigned value.</li> </ul></field></card><card><field name='Frente'><p>What is <strong>ND</strong>?</p></field><field name='Verso'><p style="text-align: justify;">ND stands for Neighbor Discovery and it's a process that a source host uses to determine the destination MAC address associated with an IPv6 address.</p></field></card><card><field name='Frente'><p>What addresses will be on the MAC address table of a switch that just got powered on?</p> <p><em>(Considering it is connected to PCs)</em></p></field><field name='Verso'><p style="text-align: justify;">None. When a switch is powered on, it will have an empty MAC address table as it has not yet learned the MAC addresses for the PCs attached to it.</p></field></card><card><field name='Frente'><p>What can you say about <strong>Frame Processing? </strong></p></field><field name='Verso'><ul> <li style="text-align: justify;">When a device is fowarding a message to an Ethernet network, the Ethernet header include a Source MAC address and a Destination MAC address</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">When a NIC receives an Ethernet frame, it examines the destination MAC address to see if it matches the physical MAC address that is stored in RAM. If there is no match, the device discards the frame. If there is a match, it passes the frame up the OSI layers, where the de-encapsulation process takes place <ul> <li>Ethernet NICs will also accept frames if the destination MAC address is a broadcast or a multicast group of which the host is a member</li> </ul> </li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Any device that is the source or destination of an Ethernet frame, will have an Ethernet NIC and therefore, a MAC address. This includes workstations, servers, printers, mobile devices and routers</li> </ul></field></card><card><field name='Frente'><p>What can you say about <strong>Multicast MAC address?</strong></p></field><field name='Verso'><p class="p1" style="text-align: justify;">An Ethernet multicast frame is received and processed by a group of devices that belong to the same multicast group.</p> <ul> <li class="p2" style="text-align: justify;">There is a destination MAC address of 01-00-5E when the encapsulated data is an IPv4 multicast packet and a destination MAC address of 33-33 when the encapsulated data is an IPv6 multicast packet.</li> <li class="p2" style="text-align: justify;">There are other reserved multicast destination MAC addresses for when the encapsulated data is not IP, such as Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). </li> <li class="p2" style="text-align: justify;">It is flooded out all Ethernet switch ports except the incoming port, unless the switch is configured for multicast snooping. It is not forwarded by a router, unless the router is configured to route multicast packets.</li> <li class="p2" style="text-align: justify;">Because multicast addresses represent a group of addresses (sometimes called a host group), they can only be used as the destination of a packet. The source will always be a unicast address.</li> <li class="p2" style="text-align: justify;">As with the unicast and broadcast addresses, the multicast IP address requires a corresponding multicast MAC address.</li> </ul></field></card><card><field name='Frente'><p>What is a <strong>unicast MAC address?</strong></p></field><field name='Verso'><p style="text-align: justify;">Is the unique address that is used when a frame is sent from a single transmitting device to a single destination device</p></field></card><card><field name='Frente'><p>What can you say about the <strong>Media Acces</strong> in the MAC Sublayer?</p></field><field name='Verso'><ul> <li style="text-align: justify;">The IEEE 802.3 MAC sublayer includes the specifications for different Ethernet communications standards over various types of media including copper and fiber</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Legacy Ethernet using a bus topology or hubs, is a shared, half-duplex medium uses a conection-based access method, carrier sense multiple access/collision detection (CSMA/CD)</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Ethernet LANs of today use switches that operate in full-duplex. Full-duplex communications with Ethernet switches do not require access control through CSMA/CD</li> </ul></field></card><card><field name='Frente'><p>What are the Data Link Sub-layers?</p> <p>{{blob a8b74d8eb9ac3cc70cb747a4fc36fd830e1da823bbe99f47e0c3c0354e0dd90f} }</p></field><field name='Verso'><p style="text-align: justify;">The 802 LAN/MAN standards, including Ethernet, use two separate sublayers of the data link layer to operate:</p> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify;">LLC Sublayer (IEEE 802.2) Places information in the frame to identify which network layer protocol is used for the frame</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">MAC Sublayer (IEEE 802.3, 802.11, or 802.15) Responsible for data encapsulation and media access control, and provides data link layer addressing</li> </ul></field></card><card><field name='Frente'><p>How does the Switch filter frames?</p></field><field name='Verso'><ul> <li style="text-align: justify;">As a switch receives frames from different devices, it is able to populate its MAC address table by examing the source MAC address of every frame</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">When the switch's MAC address table contains the destination MAC address, it is able to filter the frame and foward out a single port</li> </ul></field></card><card><field name='Frente'><p>What can you say about <strong>Broadcast MAC address?</strong></p></field><field name='Verso'><p style="text- align: justify;">An Ethernet broadcast frame is received and processed by every device on the Ethernet LAN. The features of an Ethernet broadcast are as follows:</p> <ul> <li class="p1" style="text-align: justify;">It has a destination MAC address of FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF in hexadecimal (48 ones in binary).</li> <li class="p1" style="text-align: justify;">It is flooded out all Ethernet switch ports except the incoming port. It is not forwarded by a router.</li> <li class="p1"> <p class="p1" style="text-align: justify;">If the encapsulated data is an IPv4 broadcast <span class="s1">packet, this means the packet contains a </span><span class="s1">destination IPv4 address that has all ones (1s) </span><span class="s1">in the host portion. This numbering in the </span><span class="s1">address means that all hosts on that local </span><span class="s1">network (broadcast domain) will receive and </span>process the packet.</p> </li> </ul></field></card><card><field name='Frente'><p>What is <strong>ARP</strong>?</p></field><field name='Verso'><p style="text-align: justify;">ARP is a process that a source host uses to determine the destination MAC address associated with an IPv4 address. It means Address Resolution Protocol</p></field></card><card><field name='Frente'><p>True or False: A Layer 2 Ethernet switch makes its fowarding decisions based only on the Layer 3 addresses</p></field><field name='Verso'><p style="text-align: justify;">False: it makes its fowarding decision based on the Layer 2 Ethernet MAC addresses</p></field></card><card><field name='Frente'><p>What are the Switch Fundamentals?</p></field><field name='Verso'><p>{{blob fd1cd94ab58f8d9ffa04488c6675d07f9c68923e180aeb71a6e0377e9060bafc} }</p></field></card><card><field name='Frente'><p>What can you say about Ethernet Frame Fields?</p> <p>{{blob ccc56e0b632545d25c73f6c35c233c51c02361b5fdb24b3086f9fa823415e817} }</p></field><field name='Verso'><ul> <li class="p1" style="text-align: justify;">The minimum Ethernet frame size is 64 bytes and the maximum is 1518 bytes. The preamble field is not included when describing the size of the frame.</li> <li class="p2" style="text-align: justify;">Any frame less than 64 bytes in length is considered a or and is automatically discarded. Frames with more than 1500 bytes of data are considered or .</li> <li class="p2" style="text-align: justify;">If the size of a transmitted frame is less than the minimum, or greater than the maximum, the receiving device drops the frame. Dropped frames are likely to be the result of collisions or other unwanted signals. They are considered invalid. Jumbo frames are usually supported by most Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet switches and NICs.</li> </ul></field></card></cards></deck>