Network+ : Booting and Getting On the Network

  1. Network+ Certification
  2. Network+ : Introductions and Resources
  3. Network+ : Network Models
  4. Network+: Cabling
  5. Network+ : Topologies
  6. Network+ : Ethernet Basics
  7. Network+ : Contemporary Ethernet
  8. Network+ : Installing a Physical Network
  9. Network+ : Booting and Getting On the Network
  10. Network+ : TCP/IP Basics
  11. Network+ : Subnetting
  12. Network+: Routing Protocols
  13. Network+ : Routing and Firewalls
  14. Network+ : TCP/IP Ports and Applications
  15. Network+ : Network Naming and Sharing Resources
  16. Network+ : Secure Networking
  17. Network+ : Advanced Networking Devices
  18. Network+ : IPv6
  19. Network+ : Remote Connectivity
  20. Network+ : WiFi
  21. Network+ : Virtualization
  22. Network+ : Mobile Networking
  23. Network+ : Building a Real-World Network
  24. Network+ : Managing Risk
  25. Network+ : Protecting Your Network
  26. Network+ : Network Monitoring
  27. Network+ : Network Troubleshooting
  28. Network+: Network Monitoring

Unit 9

Wired Networking: How You Get Connected

What Happens During the Boot Process:

1. Push power

2. POST runs

3. BIOSes get read into RAM

4. NIC BIOS gets read into RAM

5. Every NIC has a MAC address (48 bits, Hex) like:

01:23:45:67:89:ab

6. The NIC sends out a frame FROM: its MAC, TO: Broadcast (BC)

Ethernet Broadcast Address is:

ffffffffffff (note that this is 48 1s)

0000 = 0

0001 = 1

1111 = f

7. The switch it’s connected to hears the BC, and registers the new MAC address to the physical port it’s plugged into.

8. If NetBEUI/NetBIOS are being used (DOS, Windows 95/98, Windows NT3.x):

a. The Local Browse Master for NetBEUI/NetBIOS hears the initial NIC BC, and

b. Registers the host’s NetBIOS name and MAC address to the local Workgroup.

9. If IPv4 is being used:

a. NIC broadcasts to the IPv4 BC address: ipv4 address is 32 bits, IN DECIMAL

The IPv4 BC address is:

255.255.255.255 (note that this is 32 1s)

b. DHCP gives me

IP

NM

GW

NS

DDNS

10. If IPv6 is being used:

a. The router gives you a Network Number to prefix your Host ID, forming a 128-bit IPv6 address.

b. The NM is always /64, except in very esoteric cases.

c. The router itself is the default GW.

d. All you’re missing is a couple of DNS Name Servers, and this is all that IPv6 DHCP has to do. Even this functionality will disappear (along with IPv6 DHCP) when routers incorporate this DNS information.