Friday, 20 March 2020

Chapter 1 (semester II) : Wired LANs

Q. How LLC sub-layer makes MAC sub-layer transparent?

Ans.  The LLC provides one single data link control protocol for all IEEE LANs. inn this way it differ from MAC sub-layer, which has different protocol for different LANs. a single LLC protocol can provide inter-connectivity between different LANs because it makes MAC sub-layer transparent.

Reference: B.A. Forouzan, chapter 13. Wired LANs: Ethernet, Data Communications and Networking.