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Before you can build a complex LAN such
as that in the Teaching Topology, you must start with a simpler LAN.
In an upcoming lab, you will build a few simple LANs to see how they
function and the types of problems that may occur. Think of the small
LANs you are building as part of the Teaching Topology.
Some questions you should ask yourself before going onto the Labs:
- Do I know a simple test for finding
the Media Access Control (MAC, physical, Ethernet) Address and the
Internet Protocol (IP) Address setting on my workstation for every
installed adapter? (write down the output)
- Do I know where I might go to change
these settings? (describe how you get there and what things you
can change)
- Can I recognize and draw, from
memory, the basic networking devices: repeaters, hubs, bridges,
switches, PCs, servers, and a Cloud? (draw the symbols)
- On the teaching topology, there are
3 LAN technologies: FDDI, Token Ring, and a third technology, not
mentioned but implied by the black lines. What is that technology?
- Can I draw, using 10 dots, 6
different topologies? (draw them; refer to a graphic you have
seen. Comment on the pros and cons of each topology for connecting
10 dots)
- Can I draw a diagram of the
following networks: PC to PC; 4 PCs connected to a hub; 4 PCs
connected to a switch; 2 Groups of 4 PCs, each connected to a
router
- Can I recognize a hub and explain
all of the lights and ports? (sketch and label)
- Can I recognize a Category 5 UTP
straight-through cable (sketch and label, including the color
codes in the plugs on both ends of the cable)
- Can I recognize a Category 5 UTP
cross-connect cable? (sketch and label, including the color codes
in the plugs on both ends of the cable)
- Can I recognize an installed NIC and
explain all of the lights and ports?
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