Drew Tadgerson Networking Concepts & Apps Week3 Questions from Book MIS589 January 27, 2013 Shaun

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What does the data link layer do? The Data link Layer accepts messages from the network layer and controls the hardware that actually transmits them. It is responsible for getting a message from one computer to another without errors. It also accepts streams of bits from the physical layer and organizes them into coherent messages that it passes to the network layer. Describe four types of noise. Which is likely to pose the greatest problem to network managers? Types of noises are line outages, white noise, impulse noise, cross-talk, and echo noise. Lines outages occur are a catastrophic cause of errors and incomplete transmission. White noise is caused by the thermal agitation of electrons and therefore is inescapable. Impulse noise is heard as a click or a crackling noise and can last as long as 1/100 of a second. Cross-talk occurs when one circuit picks up signals in another. Echo noises are caused by poor connections that cause the signal to reflect back to the transmitting equipment. The type of noise that poses the greatest problem to network managers is impulse noise which is the primary source of errors in data communications. Impulse noise may not really affect voice communications, but it can obliterate a group of data, causing a burst error. Under what conditions does a data link layer protocol need an address? Under Point-to-Point protocol; It is designed to transfer data over a point-to-point circuit but provides an address so that it can be used on multipoint circuits. Its often used in WANs.