4.4 Media Access Control
4.4.1 Topologies
- 4.4.1.1 Controlling Access to the Media
- 4.4.1.2 Physical and Logical Topologies
4.4.2 WAN Topologies
- 4.4.2.1 Common Physical WAN Topologies
- 4.4.2.2 Physical Point-to-Point Topology
- 4.4.2.3 Logical Point-to-Point Topology
4.4.3 LAN Topologies
- 4.4.3.1 Physical LAN Topologies
- 4.4.3.2 Half and Full Duplex
- 4.4.3.3 Media Access Control Methods
- 4.4.3.4 Contention-Based Access – CSMA/CD
- 4.4.3.5 Contention-Based Access – CSMA/CA
4.4.4 Data Link Frame
- 4.4.4.1 The Frame
- 4.4.4.2 Frame Fields
- 4.4.4.3 Activity – Generic Frame Fields
- 4.4.4.4 Layer 2 Address
- 4.4.4.5 LAN and WAN Frames