LLC & Mac Sublayers
General Questions
Address Resolution Protocol
Ethernet Protocol
Frame Attributes
100
Which sublayer handles communication between the upper layers and the lower layers, typically between the networking software and device hardware?
What is LLC Sublayer
100
At which layers of the osi model does Ethernet function?
What are data link, and physical
100
For a frame to be placed on the LAN media, it must have a destination ____ address.
What is MAC?
100
The ____ sublayer is the lower portion of the datalink layer. ____ is implemented by hardware, typically in the computer NIC. The specifics are specified in the IEEE 802.3 standards.
What is MAC?
100
Any frame less than 64 bytes in length is considered a collision fragment or ______.
What is Runt?
200
The _____ sublayer is the lower portion of the data link layer.
What is Mac Sublayer
200
What standard specifies the Ethernet mac sublayer functionality in a computer NIC?
What is IEEE 802.3 standard
200
Each entry of the ARP table binds an IP address with a MAC address. We call the relationship between the two values a _____.
What is a Map?
200
The Ethernet ___ sublayer handles the communication handles communication between the upper layers and the lower layers.
What is LLC?
200
Any frame more than 64 bytes in length is also considered a collision fragment or ______.
What is Giant?
300
What are the Mac sublayers 2 primary responsibilities?
What are Data encapsulation and Media Access control
300
This is the name given to the Ethernet MAC sublayer PDU.
What is a Frame?
300
The ARP table is maintained ______.
What is dynamically?
300
Each Ethernet frame contains a trailer with a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the frame contents. This process is called ______.
What is Error detection?
300
The frame size was increased to accommodate this technology, it was also created within a switched network. It allows for networking across devices that exist over remote networks.
What is VLAN?
400
Data Encapsulation provides 3 primary functions, _______, __________, ________.
What are Frame Delimiting, Addressing, Error Detection.
400
This is the minimum to maximum Ethernet frame size as defined by IEEE 802.3.
What is 64 - 1518 Bytes?
400
When ARP receives a request to map an IPv4 address to a MAC address, it looks for the cached map in its ______.
What is ARP Table?
400
In _____, the device monitors the media for the presence of a data signal. If the data signal is absent, indicating that the media is free, the device transmits the data. If signals are then detected that show another device was transmitting at the same time
What is CSMA/collision detection (CSMA/CD)?
400
AS a part of the frame, this is used by the LLC sublayer to identify the layer 3 protocol.
What is Type?
500
What is the second responsibility for the Mac Sublayer?
What is Media Access Control?
500
Which 6 hexadecimal digits always begin a multicast MAC address?
What is 01-00-5E?
500
If no device responds to the ARP request, the packet is _____ because a frame cannot be created.
What is dropped?
500
In ______, the device examines the media for the presence of a data signal. If the media is free, the device sends a notification across media of its intent to use it.
What is CSMA/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA)?
500
In the frame, this is used by the MAC sublayer to identify source and destination nodes.
What is Addressing?
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