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OSI layer 3

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Hosted by Various Hosts on 2014-04-01 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
April Fools. 2.
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April Fools Shows.

Spoiler

Yes we would listen to them reading a phone book. A link for the younger listeners that may have never seen a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_directory.

In today's show we continue our look at The OSI model for network communications, with examples of Layer 3 been given with particular focus on Geography diverse Host addressing.

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_layer_3

In the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking, the network layer is layer 3. The network layer is responsible for packet forwarding including routing through intermediate routers, whereas the data link layer is responsible for media access control, flow control and error checking.

Functions

The network layer provides the functional and procedural means of transferring variable-length data sequences from a source to a destination host via one or more networks, while maintaining the quality of service functions.

Functions of the network layer include:

  • Connection model: connectionless communication
For example, IP is connectionless, in that a datagram can travel from a sender to a recipient without the recipient having to send an acknowledgement. Connection-oriented protocols exist at other, higher layers of the OSI model.
  • Host addressing
Every host in the network must have a unique address that determines where it is. This address is normally assigned from a hierarchical system. For example, you can be "Fred Murphy" to people in your house, "Fred Murphy, 1 Main Street" to Dubliners, or "Fred Murphy, 1 Main Street, Dublin" to people in Ireland, or "Fred Murphy, 1 Main Street, Dublin, Ireland" to people anywhere in the world. On the Internet, addresses are known as Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
  • Message forwarding
Since many networks are partitioned into subnetworks and connect to other networks for wide-area communications, networks use specialized hosts, called gateways or routers, to forward packets between networks. This is also of interest to mobile applications, where a user may move from one location to another, and it must be arranged that his messages follow him. Version 4 of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) was not designed with this feature in mind, although mobility extensions exist. IPv6 has a better designed solution.

Within the service layering semantics of the OSI network architecture, the network layer responds to service requests from the transport layer and issues service requests to the data link layer.


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Comment #1 posted on 2014-04-01 13:09:05 by DeepGeek

Happy April

Particularly loved the readings, thrown in as easter eggs, of bizzarrely boring techno dribble. If I had known that was going to be part of this show, I would have found something opaque to read from the great computer scientist Donald Knuth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

--- DG

Comment #2 posted on 2014-04-02 16:22:22 by pok

No worries

I don't think any of us knew.

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