Warasinee Apirakdacharchai DataCom HW8 (ch13) 1. How is the preamble field different from the SFD field?

Preamble has 56 bits of alternating 1s and 0s. It contain 7 bytes. Start frame delimiter, flag(10101011). It contains 1 byte. 2. What is the purpose of an NIC? It provides an Interface(or access) to network resources, the internet, and networks outside your LAN (local area network(your network)) 3. What is the difference between unicast, multicast and broadcast address? Unicast: the sending of information packets to a single destination Multicast: delivery of information to a group of destinations simultaneously using the most efficient strategy to deliver the messages over each link of the network only once and only create copies when the links to the destinations split. Broadcast: transmitting a packet that will be received by every device on the network 4. What are the advantage of dividing an Ethernet LAN with a bridge? The benefit is to subdivide the LANS to provide some isolation. So when it been using to transfer too many data, it will separate the subnet but still and interconnect. 5. What is the relationship between a switch and a bridge? Switches connect computers directly together then bridges again connect switches, router etc together 6. Why is there no need for CSMA/CD on a full-duplex Ethernet LAN? There is no possibility for collision, so there is no need for sensing a carrier or doing collision detection. 7. Compare the data rates for Standard Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet and Ten-Gigabit Ethernet.

 Standard Ethernet: 10 Mbps Fast Ethernet: 100 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet: 1 Gbps Ten-Gigabit Ethernet: 10 Gbps 8. What are the common Standard Ethernet implementation? 10Base5, 10Base2, 10Base-T and 10Base-F 9. What are the common Fast Ethernet implementation? 100Base-TC, 100Base-FX and 100Base-T4 10. What are the common Gigabit Ethernet? 1000Base-SX, 1000Base-LX, 1000Base-CX and 1000Base-T 11. What are the common Ten-Gigabit Ethernet? 10GBase-S, 10GBase-L and 10GBase-E