Week 2 Notes - WanderlustPenguin/Charles-Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

Lectures

  • OSI info, located in chapter 1
  • WAN, Wide Area Network
  • ring networks are slow to operate
  • Packet Tracer
  • MAC addresses are unique identifiers that are hardwired to your PC assigned by the vendor MAC Address: A unique 6-byte address assigned by the vendor of a NIC, consists of 12 hexadecimal digits, the first 6 digits are the OUI of the vendor that built the card, and the last 6 are a unique set chosen by the vendor that built the NIC which only appear on that specific card
  • OUI(Organizationally Unique Identifier): The first 3 bytes(6 digits) of the MAC address that identifies the manufacturer of the network hardware
  • DHCP server allocates IP addresses
  • IP address consists of, in order, Network ID, Host ID, and MAC ID
  • Wireshark

Book Reading


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