CCNA 1 Routing and Switching v5.0 Chapter 5

Chapter 5:
Ethernet
Introduction to Networks
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Chapter 5: Objectives
Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to:
 Describe the operation of the Ethernet sublayers.
 Identify the major fields of the Ethernet frame.
 Describe the purpose and characteristics of the Ethernet MAC address.
 Describe the purpose of ARP.
 Explain how ARP requests impact network and host performance.
 Explain basic switching concepts.
 Compare fixed configuration and modular switches.
 Configure a Layer 3 switch.
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Chapter 5
5.0 Introduction
5.1 Ethernet Protocol
5.2 Address Resolution Protocol
5.3 LAN Switches
5.4 Summary

5.1 Ethernet Protocol

Ethernet Operation
LLC and MAC Sublayers
Ethernet
 One of the most widely used LAN technologies
 Operates in the data link layer and the physical layer
 Family of networking technologies that are defined in the IEEE
802.2 and 802.3 standards
 Supports data bandwidths of 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 40,000, and
100,000 Mbps (100 Gbps)
Ethernet Standards
 Define Layer 2 protocols and Layer 1 technologies
 Two separate sub layers of the data link layer to operate – Logical
link control (LLC) and the MAC sublayers

Ethernet Operation
LLC and MAC Sublayers (cont.)

Ethernet Operation
LLC and MAC Sublayers (cont.)
LLC
 Handles communication between upper and lower layers.
 Takes the network protocol data and adds control information to help
deliver the packet to the destination.
MAC
 Constitutes the lower sublayer of the data link layer.
 Implemented by hardware, typically in the computer NIC.
 Two primary responsibilities:
 Data encapsulation
 Media access control

Ethernet Operation
MAC Sublayer

Ethernet Operation
MAC Sublayer (cont.)
Data encapsulation
 Frame assembly before transmission and frame disassembly upon
reception of a frame.
 MAC layer adds a header and trailer to the network layer PDU.
Provides three primary functions:
 Frame delimiting – Identifies a group of bits that make up a frame,
synchronization between the transmitting and receiving nodes.
 Addressing – Each Ethernet header added in the frame contains the
physical address (MAC address) that enables a frame to be delivered
to a destination node.
 Error detection – Each Ethernet frame contains a trailer with a cyclic
redundancy check (CRC) of the frame contents.

Ethernet Operation
MAC Sublayer (cont.)
MAC
 Responsible for the placement of frames on the media and the removal
of frames from the media
 Communicates directly with the physical layer
 If multiple devices on a single medium attempt to forward data
simultaneously, the data will collide resulting in corrupted, unusable data
 Ethernet provides a method for controlling how the nodes share access
through the use a Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) technology

Ethernet Operation
Media Access Control
Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) process
 Used to first detect if the media is carrying a signal
 If no carrier signal is detected, the device transmits its data
 If two devices transmit at the same time - data collision

Ethernet Operation
Media Access Control (cont.)

Ethernet Operation
CSMA is usually implemented in conjunction with a method for resolving
media contention. The two commonly used methods are:
CSMA/Collision Detection and CSMA/Collision Avoidance
CSMA/Collision Detection
• The device monitors the media for the presence of a data signal
• If a data signal is absent, indicating that the media is free, the device
transmits the data
• If signals are then detected that show another device was transmitting
at the same time, all devices stop sending & try again later
• While Ethernet networks are designed with CSMA/CD technology,
with today’s intermediate devices, collisions do not occur and the
processes utilized by CSMA/CD are really unnecessary
• Wireless connections in a LAN environment still have to take
collisions into account

Ethernet Operation
CSMA/Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA) media access method
• Device examines the media for the presence of data signal - if the
media is free, the device sends a notification across the media of its
intent to use it
• The device then sends the data.
• Used by 802.11 wireless networking technologies

Ethernet Operation
MAC Address: Ethernet Identity
 Layer 2 Ethernet MAC
address is a 48-bit binary
value expressed as 12
hexadecimal digits.
 IEEE requires a vendor to
follow these rules:
 Must use that
vendor's assigned
OUI as the first 3
bytes.
 All MAC addresses
with the same OUI
must be assigned a
unique value in the
last 3 bytes.

Ethernet Operation
Frame Processing
 MAC addresses assigned to workstations, servers, printers, switches,
and routers.
 Example MACs:
 00-05-9A-3C-78-00
 00:05:9A:3C:78:00
 0005.9A3C.7800.
 When a device is forwarding a message to an Ethernet network,
attaches header information to the packet, contains the source and
destination MAC address.
 Each NIC views information to see if the destination MAC address in
the frame matches the device’s physical MAC address stored in RAM.
 No match, the device discards the frame.
 Matches the destination MAC of the frame, the NIC passes the frame
up the OSI layers, where the de-encapsulation process takes place.

Ethernet Frame Attributes
Ethernet Encapsulation
 Early versions of
Ethernet were slow at
10 Mb/s.
 Now operate at 10
Gb/s per second and
faster.
 Ethernet frame
structure adds headers
and trailers around the
Layer 3 PDU to
encapsulate the
message being sent.
 Ethernet II is the
Ethernet frame format
used in TCP/IP
networks.
Comparison of 802.3 and Ethernet II Frame Structures and Field Size

Ethernet Frame Size
 Ethernet II and IEEE 802.3 standards define the minimum frame
size as 64 bytes and the maximum as 1518 bytes
 Less than 64 bytes in length is considered a "collision fragment" or
"runt frame”
 If size of a transmitted frame is less than the minimum or greater
than the maximum, the receiving device drops the frame
 At the physical layer, different versions of Ethernet vary in their
method for detecting and placing data on the media

Ethernet Frame Size (cont.)
The figure displays the fields contained in the 802.1Q VLAN tag

Introduction to the Ethernet Frame
Preamble and Start
Frame Delimiter
Fields –
Used for
synchronization
between the sending
and receiving
devices.
Length/Type Field –
Defines the exact
length of the frame's
data field; describes
which protocol is
implemented.
Data and Pad
Fields –
Contains the
encapsulated
data from a
higher layer, an
IPv4 packet.

Introduction to the Ethernet Frame (cont.)
Frame Check Sequence Field
Used to detect errors in a frame with cyclic redundancy check (4
bytes); if calculations match at source and receiver, no error
occurred.

Ethernet MAC
MAC Addresses and Hexadecimal

Ethernet MAC
MAC Address Representations

Ethernet MAC
Unicast MAC Address

Ethernet MAC
Broadcast MAC Address

Ethernet MAC
Multicast MAC Address
Multicast MAC address is a
special value that begins with
01-00-5E in hexadecimal
Range of IPV4 multicast
addresses is 224.0.0.0 to
239.255.255.255

MAC and IP
MAC and IP
MAC Address
 This address does not change
 Similar to the name of a person
 Known as physical address because physically assigned to the host
NIC
IP Address
 Similar to the address of a person
 Based on where the host is actually located
 Known as a logical address because assigned logically
 Assigned to each host by a network administrator
Both the physical MAC and logical IP addresses are required for a
computer to communicate just like both the name and address of a
person are required to send a letter.

Ethernet MAC
End-to-End Connectivity, MAC, and IP
IP Packet Encapsulated in an Ethernet Frame

Ethernet MAC
End-to-End Connectivity, MAC, and IP (cont.)

5.2 Address Resolution
Protocol

ARP
Introduction to ARP
ARP Purpose
 Sending node needs a way to find the MAC address of the destination
for a given Ethernet link
The ARP protocol provides two basic functions:
 Resolving IPv4 addresses to MAC addresses
 Maintaining a table of mappings

ARP
Introduction to ARP (cont.)

ARP
ARP Functions/Operation
ARP Table
 Used to find the data link layer address that is mapped to the
destination IPv4 address.
 As a node receives frames from the media, it records the source IP
and MAC address as a mapping in the ARP table.
ARP Request
 Layer 2 broadcast to all devices on the Ethernet LAN.
 The node that matches the IP address in the broadcast will reply.
 If no device responds to the ARP request, the packet is dropped
because a frame cannot be created.
Note: Static map entries can be entered in an ARP table, but this is
rarely done.

ARP
ARP Operation

ARP
ARP Operation (cont.)

ARP

ARP
ARP Functions/Operation (cont.)

ARP
ARP Role in Remote Communication
 If the destination IPv4 host is on the local network, the frame will use
the MAC address of this device as the destination MAC address.
 If the destination IPv4 host is not on the local network, the source
uses the ARP process to determine a MAC address for the router
interface serving as the gateway.
 In the event that the gateway entry is not in the table, an ARP
request is used to retrieve the MAC address associated with the IP
address of the router interface.

ARP
Removing Entries from an ARP Table
 The ARP cache
timer removes
ARP entries that
have not been
used for a
specified period
of time.
 Commands may
also be used to
manually remove
all or some of the
entries in the
ARP table.

ARP
ARP Tables on Networking Devices

ARP Issues
How ARP Can Create Problems

ARP Issues
Mitigating ARP Problems

5.3 LAN Switches

Switching
Switch Port Fundamentals
Layer 2 LAN Switch
 Connects end devices to a central intermediate device on most
Ethernet networks
 Performs switching and filtering based only on the MAC address
 Builds a MAC address table that it uses to make forwarding
decisions
 Depends on routers to pass data between IP subnetworks

Switching
Switch MAC Address Table
1. The switch receives a broadcast frame from PC 1 on Port 1.
2. The switch enters the source MAC address and the switch port that
received the frame into the address table.
3. Because the destination address is a broadcast, the switch floods the
frame to all ports, except the port on which it received the frame.
4. The destination device replies to the broadcast with a unicast frame
addressed to PC 1.

Switching
Switch MAC Address Table (cont.)
5. The switch enters the source MAC address of PC 2 and the port
number of the switch port that received the frame into the address
table. The destination address of the frame and its associated port is
found in the MAC address table.
6. The switch can now forward frames between source and destination
devices without flooding, because it has entries in the address table
that identify the associated ports.

Switching
Duplex Settings

Switching
Auto-MDIX

Switching
Frame Forwarding Methods on Cisco Switches

Switching
Cut-through Switching
Fast-forward switching:
 Lowest level of latency
immediately forwards a
packet after reading the
destination address,
typical cut-through
method of switching
Fragment-free switching:
 Switch stores the first
64 bytes of the frame
before forwarding, most
network errors and
collisions occur during
the first 64 bytes

Switching
Memory Buffering on Switches

Fixed or Modular
Fixed versus Modular Configuration

Fixed or Modular
Fixed versus Modular Configuration (cont.)

Fixed or Modular
Module Options for Cisco Switch Slots

Layer 3 Switching
Layer 2 versus Layer 3 Switching

Layer 3 Switching
Cisco Express Forwarding
Cisco devices which support Layer 3 switching utilize Cisco Express
Forwarding (CEF). Two main components of CEF operation are the:
 Forwarding Information Base (FIB)
 Conceptually it is similar to a routing table.
 A networking device uses this lookup table to make destination-based
switching decisions during Cisco Express Forwarding
operation.
 Updated when changes occur in the network and contains all
routes known at the time.
 Adjacency Tables
 Maintain layer 2 next-hop addresses for all FIB entries.

Layer 3 Switching
Types of Layer 3 Interfaces
The major types of Layer 3 interfaces are:
 Switch Virtual Interface (SVI) – Logical interface on a switch
associated with a virtual local-area network (VLAN).
 Routed Port – Physical port on a Layer 3 switch configured to act as
a router port. Configure routed ports by putting the interface into
Layer 3 mode with the no switchport interface configuration
command.
 Layer 3 EtherChannel – Logical interface on a Cisco device
associated with a bundle of routed ports.

Layer 3 Switching
Configuring a Routed Port on a Layer 3 Switch

Chapter 5
Summary
 Ethernet is the most widely used LAN technology used today.
 Ethernet standards define both the Layer 2 protocols and the Layer 1
technologies.
 The Ethernet frame structure adds headers and trailers around the
Layer 3 PDU to encapsulate the message being sent.
 As an implementation of the IEEE 802.2/3 standards, the Ethernet
frame provides MAC addressing and error checking.
 Replacing hubs with switches in the local network has reduced the
probability of frame collisions in half-duplex links.
 The Layer 2 addressing provided by Ethernet supports unicast,
multicast, and broadcast communications.
 Ethernet uses the Address Resolution Protocol to determine the MAC
addresses of destinations and map them against known Network layer
addresses.

Chapter 5
Summary (cont.)
 Each node on an IP network has both a MAC address and an IP
address.
 The ARP protocol resolves IPv4 addresses to MAC addresses and
maintains a table of mappings.
 A Layer 2 switch builds a MAC address table that it uses to make
forwarding decisions.
 Layer 3 switches are also capable of performing Layer 3 routing
functions, reducing the need for dedicated routers on a LAN.
 Layer 3 switches have specialized switching hardware so they can
typically route data as quickly as they can switch.

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