Basic Networking

A network in which there are multiple network links between computers to provide multiple paths for data to travel.

A method for providing fault tolerance by using multiple hard disk drives to get backups of data.

A Management Information Base is part of every SNMP-managed device. Each SNMP agent has the MIB database that contains information about the device's status, its performance, connections, and configuration. The MIB is queried by SNMP.

A layer of a glass surrounding the center fiber of glass inside a fiber-optic cable.

A generic term for section of a large networks usually separated by a bridge or router.

A gateway operates at the upper levels of the OSI model and translates information between two completely different network architectures or data formats.

A communications protocol used to connect computers to remote networking services including Internet service providers.

10Base2—An Ethernet term meaning a maximum transfer rate of 10 Megabits per second that uses baseband signaling, with a contiguous cable segment length of 100 meters and a maximum of 2 segments

10Base5—An Ethernet term meaning a maximum transfer rate of 10 Megabits per second that uses baseband signaling, with 5 continuous segments not exceeding 100 meters per segment.

10BaseT—An Ethernet term meaning a maximum transfer rate of 10 Megabits per second that uses baseband signaling and twisted pair cabling.

(i) Simplex

(ii) Half-duplex

(iii) Full-duplex.

Two types of transmission technology available are:

(i) Broadcast

(ii) point-to-point.

Below line will convert a numeric IP address like 192.18.97.39 into a hostname like rendc.org

String hostname = InetAddress.getByName("192.18.97.39").getHostName();

1: Client/Server Network

2: Peer-to-Peer Network