Network Interface Layer
You can buy the best of gifts for Christmas, package them in the most beautiful gift wrap, and choose the best mail delivery service to send your gift, but it all depends on the mail carrier to ensure a safe and timely delivery of your gift to your loved ones. The Network Interface layer acts as the mail carrier in the TCP/IP reference model. This layer is responsible for transmitting data over the physical medium. Information is sent over the physical medium in the form of units called frames. The information required by the physical medium for transferring data from the source to the destination is specified in the frame. In addition, the data that is provided by the higher layers of the TCP/IP reference model are ...
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