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Fundamentals of Communications and Networking, 3rd Edition
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Fundamentals of Communications and Networking, 3rd Edition

by Michael G. Solomon, David Kim
January 2021
Beginner
565 pages
19h 27m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Internetwork Routing Functions

LANs must be interconnected, especially in large organizations. When information access and sharing is needed, how you interconnect LANs is an important design decision. LAN-to-LAN and LAN-to-WAN connectivity require internetworking between them. This section will examine different internetworking techniques and the routing functions needed to support them.

LAN-to-LAN Routing

When a host on one LAN transmits a message to a host on another LAN connected to the same router, one of two things can happen, depending on the characteristics of the LANs. If the two LANs are running the same network technology, such as Ethernet, it’s a simple matter of extracting the destination host’s network ID and forwarding the ...

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ISBN: 9781284200126