What hardware device is used to connect Ethernet LANs to WANs?
What is a Router
100
Many modern Ethernet LANs use a..............to the shape of the network.
What is Star Topology
100
All Ethernet standards use the same consistent Ethernet
What is headers and trailers
100
The second half is a number chosen by the vendor that the vendor never uses again for any other Ethernet product
What is the Vendor Assigned
100
The IEEE defines MAC addresses as how many bit numbers
What is 48 bit numbers
200
In what form is traffic forwarded between sites by routers used to connect Ethernet LANs and WANs?
What is IP Packets
200
Modern Ethernet LAN topologies also use this type of link to connect nodes or points
What is point-to-point links
200
The IEEE defines the header and trailer as part of the 802.3 standard called
What is Media Access Control (MAC)
200
This device makes the decision on how to forward data
What is the LAN Switch
200
What are the two broad types of LAN technologies that currently exist today?
What are Ethernet LAN and wireless WAN
300
Metropolitan Ethernet is another name for this WAN service
What is Metro Ethernet
300
What are the key original three Ethernet LAN IEEE standards
What is 802.2, 802.3 and 802.5
300
This field identifies the type of data held in the next field, the Data field
What is Type Field
300
This MAC address table list MAC addresses, and for each address the table lists the port out which to forward frames going to that address
What is the MAC Address Table
300
Unshielded Twisted Pair Cable has a distance of how many meters
What is 100 meters
400
This Ethernet LAN standard uses wires (cables)
What is IEEE 802.3
400
Some older Ethernet standards that came before the 10BASE -T network used another topology called what.....
What is Bus Topology
400
These two fields work together to give the other nodes on the link a warning that a new frame is coming down the link.
What is Preamble and SFD
400
This is the code registered to the vendor and only used by that vendor
What is the Organizational Unique Identifier (IOU)
400
This field holds the data as supplied by the layer above the Ethernet
What is Data
500
LAN standards all start with this number
What is 802
500
The 10BASE5 used this thicker coaxial cable with a bus topology
What is Thicknet
500
This MAC Address field identifies the MAC address of the device to which the frame should be sent
What is Destination MAC Address
500
This includes the Ethernet data link header and the Ethernet data link layer trailer, plus the data and other higher-layer headers that need ti be sent through the LAN
What is the Ethernet Frame
500
The Frame Check Sequence field plays a key role in how