Sunday, January 24, 2010

Net+ Class 1/20/2010 OSI Model

Today in class, we discuss in more details about the OSI model. What is happening at each of the seven layers? We also talked about de-capsulation and encapsulation.





The instructor had a surprise for the class after our discussion. He had us to breakdown into two groups of threes so that we could build a P2P network. This is a peer-to-peer network. They had to share resources between them. We use two computers and a switch. We were also given two Ethernet cables to connect them.

Once they were connected together, I ping them to see if they was able to communicate with one another. We had to give each unit an IP address manually and a subnet address. Then we had to bring up the wizard to create a connection. Last, we designated one of the computers as a master to allow file sharing.

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