Things to Concentrate on
the MidTerm
Updated 8 Mar 2005
--Show a lot of understanding of the OSI reference model and layer 1, 2, 3
issues
Overall & Lecture:
+Definitions (network, LAN, WAN)
+ethernet frame/packet formats
+frequency/datarate/bandwidth definitions
+Types of error recovery methods
+4 types of topologies (from lecture)
+simplex/halfduplex/full duplex
+802.3 Operation
+OSI Layers
+lecture in bridge operations
+Decisions in bridging
{how bridges work}
+Spanning tree algorithm
+IP
+basic routing issues
+minimal TCP/IP