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Introduction to TCP/IP

Introduction to TCP/IP

- The primary hardware technology that we use on networks today is a standard called ethernet. And ethernet is absolutely fantastic for getting frames from one computer to the next, but it doesn't make a network. It doesn't provide resources, and that's what we need to talk about next. We need to talk about the network capabilities of your system to be able to do things like share resources, to access shared resources, and to be able to talk over all this plumbing to get the job done. So what I want to do, and what I have right here is I've got a switch with a couple of connections to it, and this could be going to individual computers basically making one simple broadcast domain. But I don't like this. You know what we need right now? I think we need more olives. So what I'm going to do, let's bring our olives back, and here's all my ethernet cabling, and I guess we're going to need a couple of switches, too. Mmmm. Delicious ethernet switches. So let's just start off with two of…

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