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How explain the the basis for determining the Minimum Frame Size in Ethernet?

Size is 64 bytes.

Destination Address (6 bytes)

Source Address (6 bytes)

Frame Type (2 bytes)

Data (46 bytes)

CRC Checksum (4 bytes)

46 bytes must be transmitted at a minumum, with additional pad bytes added to meet frame requirements.

There is a fundamental minimum frame size imposed by the headers, but that isn't it.

Think back to the days when ethernet was a multi-drop fat yellow coax, rather than the mesh of switched point to point cat5 links it is today.

A sender needed to send the packet and determine whether or not it got received by others on the wire. Reasons why it might not get received were mostly down to collisions with other transmitters transmitting on the same wire at the same time.

To determine if there was a collision, the sender listened to his own transmission to see if it could be recieved. If it was garbled due to a collision, it would know. Hence the name CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with *Collision Detect*).

However transit time down the wire isn't instantaneous. If you could send a tiny packet at the same time as someone at the far end of the wire, a receiver in the middle of the wire might receive both signals at the same time, garbled, yet they pass over each other and get received by the far ends just fine. So they think the guy in the middle got it, but it didn't, thus breaking the Ethernet model on which 802.1D relies.

To prevent this, you want the head of the packet to transit from one end of the wire and back again before the tail of the packet finished transmission. If there's a transmission anywhere on the wire overlapping, you'll hear it collide at your receiver.

The maximum transmission time is lengthened by repeaters. You need to account for the time to transit through the maximum number of wires and repeaters on a LAN segment.

The header length issue is a red herring. The transit time is independent of bit rate. So as bit rates go up, the header length goes down. So trying to use header size to determine that the packet is long enough is not safe. Safe at 10MBPS might not be safe at 100MBPS, hence the need for a time based packet length minimum.

In short, the packet has to be long enough for the collision detect part of the CSMA/CD algorithm to work.

What is the abrevation of PING?

Ping stands for:

Packet Internet Grope

How do you know which bits are host bit in a subnet mask?

Since a subnet mask is used to separate the network id from the host id, any 1 bits indicate the network portion and the 0 bits indicate host portion. As an example, in the subnet mask:

255.255.0.0

This indicates the first two octets are used for the network, and the last two octets (ipV4) are used for host portion of an address.

What is the purpose of the word 'blah'?

Blah

* noun # worthless nonsense; drivel. # Blahs A general feeling of depression, discomfort, or dissatisfaction. * adj # dull and uninteresting. # low in spirit or health.

What does the enable command do in a cisco router?

The "enable" command will bring the privilege level from user exec to privileged exec.

Example:

R1>

R1>enable

R1#

What does isr in networking stand for?

Integrated Services Router

Such as:

1900's

2900's

3900's

What is self install?

Like Custom or Manual Install

What is a fully peered network?

All peers must be at the very same level. There must not be a server or any peer neither indexing nor monitoring the network.

What are the answers to prove it questions?

For a project to be created in Microsoft Project 2003, all of the following are necessary except for which one?

What is a plug switch for a load out spout?

A switch that will alarm the main control room or operator that the material being conveyed through the load out spout has backed up. This will typically be near the discharge. Can be applicable to spouts, conveyors, bucket elevators, etc...

Which two criteria does a switch use to select the root bridge?

Bridge Priority and MAC address is used to break a tie.

When should distance vector routing be used?

Distance vector routing is used when the network is simple and has no hierarchical design. Examples of distance vector routing protocols are RIP and IGRP.