Tyler Lubbers

IT385 - HOMEWORK #2
TYLER LUBBERS FALL 2015

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TCP/ IP

P R O T O C O L S U I T E , W H AT A R E T H E I D E N T I C A L O B J E C T S AT

T H E S E N D E R A N D T H E R E C E I V E R S I T E S W H E N W E T H I N K A B O U T T H E LO G I C A L
C O N N E C T I O N AT T H E A P P L I C AT I O N L AY E R ?

At the application layer, the identical objects are messages.

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O F T H E F O L LO W I N G D ATA U N I T S I S E N C A P S U L AT E D I N A F R A M E ?

A datagram is encapsulated in a frame, however the user datagram is not encapsulated

in a frame.

( P2 1 4 ) A SS U M E W E WA N T T O C O N N E C T T W O I S O L AT E D H O S T S T O G E T H E R T O L E T
E A C H H O S T C O M - M U N I C AT E W I T H T H E O T H E R . D O W E N E E D A L I N K - L AY E R S W I T C H
BETWEEN THE TWO? EXPLAIN.
No we do not need a link-layer switch. Two isolated hosts will have a one to one connection,
and link-layer switches are only needed for one to many connections.