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is the Internet.

Figure 18-40 Two broadcast domains connected by a router—a WAN

You can connect multiple smaller networks into a bigger network, turning

a group of LANs into one big WAN, but this raises a couple of issues with

network traffic. A computer needs some form of powerful, flexible

addressing to address a frame so that it goes to a computer within its own

LAN or to a computer on another LAN on the same WAN. Broadcasting is

also unacceptable, at least between LANs. If every computer saw every

frame, the network traffic would quickly spin out of control! Plus, the

addressing scheme needs to work so that routers can sort the frames and send

them along to the proper LAN. This process, called routing, requires routers

and a routing-capable protocol to function correctly.

Routers destroy any incoming broadcast frames, by design. No broadcast

frame can ever go through a router. This makes broadcasting still quite

common within a single broadcast domain, but never anywhere else.

To go beyond a LAN requires a network protocol—a way machines agree

to communicate—that can handle routing. That protocol, for the vast majority

of networks, is called TCP/IP, and Chapter 19 begins with the details. For

now, review the end-of-chapter material and take some practice exams. See

you in Chapter 19!

Chapter Review

Questions

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