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Networking Fundamentals
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Networking Fundamentals

by Gordon Davies
December 2019
Beginner
510 pages
12h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding the network layer

The network layer of the TCP/IP model maps against the data-link layer and the physical layer of the OSI model. Because of this, it incorporates the functions of these two OSI layers into this one TCP/IP layer.

While the internet layer is responsible for communications mainly outside the host's network and for routing this data, the network layer is responsible for communications on the link (basically anything within the same subnet). Because of this, the network layer is sometimes referred to as the link layer.

It is on the network layer of the TCP/IP model that media access control is performed, and therefore MAC addresses can be found here. In addition, the attributes of the physical medium, such as modulation ...

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