2. Data Link
Controls communication between one device and the next immediately connected device, on the immediate physical link.
In the CISCO world, whenever you see a thunderbolt being drawn, it means it is a serial connection, which in a router is your Wide Area link.
Suppose you have two routers connected through a serial connection, that is your Local Data Link.
TOC
- How Data Looks in this layer
- MAC
- PDU: Protocol Data Unit -> Frame
- How Frame Travels
- Flood vs Broadcast
- Ethernet
- Half- vs Full-Duplex
- CSMA/CD
- Broadcast and Collision Domains
- VLANs
- Links on a Switch
- Access Ports
- Trunk Ports
- Spanning Tree Protocol (STP 802.1d)
- BDPU
- STP Convergence Process
- STP Decision Process
- PVST: Per VLAN Spanning Tree
- Enhancements
- Port Fast
- BDPU Guard
- VTP: VLAN Trunking Protocol
- Router on a Stick Topology
- Inter-VLAN using SVIs
- Point to Point Protocol
- Frame Relay
- Cisco IOS
- Basic commands
- Troubleshooting
- VLAN Configuration
- Trunking
- Spanning Tree Protocol
- Port Fast