Review Questions

1: What is the primary purpose of a LAN?
2: What is a protocol?
3: What is the purpose of a MAC protocol?
4: What is a frame?
5: What feature is common to all frame types?
6: What is a MAC address or MAC identifier?
7: Why is a MAC address not a true address?
8: What are the three sources of signal degradation on a data link?
9: What is the purpose of a repeater?
10: What is the purpose of a bridge?
11: What makes a transparent bridge transparent?
12: Name three fundamental differences between LANs and WANs.
13: What is the purpose of a broadcast MAC identifier? What is the broadcast MAC identifier, in hex and in binary?
14: What is the primary similarity between a bridge and a router? What is the primary difference between a bridge and ...

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