Link layer and LANs

link layer has responsibility of transferring datagram from one node to physically adjacent node over a link

• True

• False

pacing between adjacent sending and receiving nodes

• error correction

• full-duplex

• error detection

• flow control

link layer implemented in

types of “links” that categorized as old-fashioned Ethernet

• Multiple access links

• broadcast

• point-to-point

• protocols

this is broad classes expect...

• random access

• time division multiple access

• channel partitioning

• “taking turns”

FDMA belongs to...

control token passed from one node to next sequentially

• polling

• DOCSIS

• token passing

• multiple access

Ethernet: physical topology divided into...

• bus and router

• switched and router

• bus and switched

• bus and wireless

carries frames between VLANS defined over multiple physical switches

• receiver port

• host port

• trunk port

• application port

MAC address allocation administered by