CCNA - About Internetworking Basics

-: Internetworking Basics:-

Here’s A list of some of the things that commonly cause LAN traffic congestion:-

-           Too many hosts in a broadcast Domain.

-           Broadband Storms.

-           Multicasting.

-           Low Bandwidth.

-           Adding hubs for connectivity to the network.

-           A Bunch of ARP or IPX traffic (IPX is a Novell protocol that is such as IP, But really chatty. Typically not used today’s networks.)

There are two advantage of using routers in your network:-

-           They don’t forward broadcast by default.

-           They can filter the network based on layer3 (Network Layer) information (e.g. IP address).

Four Router Functions in your Network can be listed as follows:-

-           Packet Switching

-           Packet Filtering

-           Internetwork Communication

-           Path Selection