The entities comprising the layers on different machines are called peers.The peer may be processes,hardware devices or even human beings. In other words, it is the peers that communicate by using the protocol.
SMB
Two types of peer-to-peer networks exist that are:• Pure peer-to-peer Network:All Peers act as equals mean to say that there is no dedicated server, all behaves equally• Hybrid peer-to-peer Network:It act as the client¬server model because it has a central peer act as server that keeps information on peers and responds to requests for that information. Central server (peer) knows what resources are shared and what are free. They are also responsible for hosting management of available resources.
SMB (Server Message Block)
Protocol layers may be defined in such a way that the communications within a layer is independent of the operation of the layer being being used. This is known as "peer-to-peer" communication and is an important goal of the OSI Reference Model. Each layer provides a protocol to communicate with its peer. When a packet is transmitted by a layer, a header consisting of Protocol Control Information (PCI) is added to the data to be sent. In OSI terminology, the packet data (also known as the Payload) is called a Protocol Data Unit (PDU). The packet so-formed, called a Service Data Unit (SDU) is passed via a service access point to the layer below. This is sent using the service of the next lower protocol layer.
A layer appears to be communicating directly with the same layer at the other end of the link (i.e. its peer). What is actually happening is that the data is being passed down to lower layers for transmission and is passed up again at the other end.
In layered systems, one of a set of entities that are in the same layer or the equivalent layer of another system.
The entities comprising the layers on different machines are called peers.The peer may be processes,hardware devices or even human beings. In other words, it is the peers that communicate by using the protocol.
ip
The Server Message Block (SMB) is a network sharing protocol that has an application-layer network protocol used for providing shared access to any file, printer, fax, and other computer miscellaneous. SMB also allows updating files on the remote server.
peer-to-peer
NO. In a true peer to peer there is no server.
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