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i)SOHO LAN
--SOHO stands for Small Office Home Office
--it is good for small business having 10-15 employees
--it connects multiple devices for internal access
ii)enterprise LAN
--it is good for big organizations where data traffic is high
--it is a multilayered network consist of routers,switches,firewall,access
points,server,storage etc
4.WHAT IS SWITCHING?
--the process of transferring the frames from one device to another device is
called as switching
7.WHAT IS LOOP?
--when two or more switches are interconnected with each other by using two or
more physical links is called as loop
--switching loops creats 3 major problems in redundant switched network
9.WHAT IS COLLISION?
--collision is a situation when two or more data packets travel at the same time on
the same medium in the same direction
11.WHAT IS BROADCAST?
--broadcast is a situation where frame sent by one nic is received by all other
nics in a network
13.SWITCH CONFIGURATION
i)assigning hostname
--cisco has given the default hostname of a switch is switch
Switch>
Switch>enable
Switch#configure terminal
Switch(config)#hostname sw1
sw1(config)#
b)telnet password
sw1(config)#line vty 0 15
sw1(config-if)#password <password>======================syntax
sw1(config-if)#password ccna1
sw1(config-if)#login
sw1(config-if)#exit
sw1(config)#exit
sw1#show running-config
v)assign ip address
--switch does not require ip address for working in layer-2 but ip is required to
access the switch remotely for adminitrative purpose
sw1(config)#interface vlan1
sw1(config-if)#no shutdown
sw1(config-if)#ip address 10.1.1.2 255.0.0.0
sw1(config-if)#exit
sw1(config)#ip default-gateway 10.1.1.1