In the enterprise, data link protocols provide functions such as finding a path and managing parallel paths. In LANs, the most common kind of learning is finding a path through a set of network ...

The Data Link Layer is one of my favorite layers of the OSI Model. Like a father who loves ALL of his children equally, but in different ways, I also love the other layers, but Layer 2 will always ...

The Bottom Layers In Ethernet and Wi-Fi networks, the data link layer is split into two sublayers. The Logical Link Control (LLC) is an interface to the Media Access Control (MAC) layer.

Layer 2 of the OSI model is where we find the Data Link Layer, which provides the mechanism by which data is transferred from node to node across a network. What makes this layer important is that ...