lecture18: Internet Implementation an Tree-like networks
This lectures describes some aspects of the Internet
implementation of importance for our lectures. It is by no means a
complete description of the Internet.
Topics covered
- Lecture goals/outline
- Routing vs Switching
- Addresses
- Other types of communications
- Ethernet
- Ethernet flavours
- Ethernet frame
- Ethernet topologies: bus
- CSMA/CD
- MAC sub-layer (of Link layer)
- Ethernet topologies: hub/spoke
- Ethernet topologies: switched
- Mixed Ethernet Topologies
- Switched Ethernet
- Ethernet limits
- Internet as a network of networks