Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume One, 6th Edition

2 Overview Of Underlying Network Technologies

Chapter Contents

1. 2.1 Introduction, 19

2. 2.2 Two Approaches To Network Communication, 20

3. 2.3 WAN And LAN, 21

4. 2.4 Hardware Addressing Schemes, 21

5. 2.5 Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), 22

6. 2.6 Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11), 26

7. 2.7 ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4), 26

8. 2.8 Optical Carrier And Packet Over SONET (OC, POS), 27

9. 2.9 Point-To-Point Networks, 28

10. 2.10 VLAN Technology And Broadcast Domains, 28

11. 2.11 Bridging, 29

12. 2.12 Congestion And Packet Loss, 30

1. Summary, 31

2.1 Introduction

The Internet introduced a key change in our thinking about computer networking. Earlier efforts all aimed at producing a new kind of networking. The Internet introduced a new method of interconnecting individual networks and a set of protocols that ...