http://www.bitmindframes.info/osi-data-link-layer-layer-2 cisco networking study guides Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:33:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.bitmindframes.info/osi-data-link-layer-layer-2#comment-24 admin Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:19:30 +0000 http://bitmindframes.info/?p=82#comment-24 Different topologies and their uses can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_topology The topology you use will depend on your network, a bus topology would not be ideal for a LAN environment with 10+ workstations because they all share the medium and collisions will occur on the wire. A full mesh topology is redundant but very costly in terms of frame relay networks. I hope this will help you. Different topologies and their uses can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_topology
The topology you use will depend on your network, a bus topology would not be ideal for a LAN environment with 10+ workstations because they all share the medium and collisions will occur on the wire. A full mesh topology is redundant but very costly in terms of frame relay networks.
I hope this will help you.

]]> http://www.bitmindframes.info/osi-data-link-layer-layer-2#comment-23 raju Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:29:46 +0000 http://bitmindframes.info/?p=82#comment-23 can u tell me in detail how the topologies in the physical layer i.e(star,ring ,mesh,etc) differ from each other acc to thier conn and which topology can be adopted for which type of network.... can u tell me in detail how the topologies in the physical layer i.e(star,ring ,mesh,etc) differ from each other acc to thier conn and which topology can be adopted for which type of network….

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