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Ethernet Standards. Ethernet concepts origin DIX consortium – 1979 10Mbps Ethernet 1 st Blue book – 1980 IEEE group takes over – Project 802 802.1 – High Level Interface –HLI – Focused on high level inter-network protocols & management 802.2 – Logic Link Control
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Ethernet Standards • Ethernet concepts origin • DIX consortium – 1979 • 10Mbps Ethernet 1st Blue book – 1980 • IEEE group takes over – Project 802 • 802.1 – High Level Interface –HLI – • Focused on high level inter-network protocols & management • 802.2 – Logic Link Control • 802.3 – Data Link & Medium Access Control • DLMAC
Ethernet Standards • 1982 – DLMAC – 3 groups • 802.3 – CSMA/CD – driven by DIX • 802.4 – Token Bus – burroughs, concorde, • 802.5 – Token – Ring - IBM • 1982 – DIX & IEEE merges • 1st version of 802.3 Ethernet standard
Ethernet Standards • IEEE 802.3 – series of specifications for 10Mbps • Thick coaxial – thicknet – 10Base5 • Thin coaxial – thinnet- cheapernet –10Base2 • UTP XBaseT • Fibre XBaseF • Broadband version XBroad36
Ethernet Standards • Other specifications • 100 Mbs – fast Ethernet • 1000 Mbps – gigabit Ethernet • Switched Ethernet • Proposal for 100MBps – 1982 • IEEE 802 focused on 1- 20 MBps • ANSI took up 100 Mbps - led to FDDI
Ethernet Popularity • Low network management requirements • Open standards • Reasonable prices • Easy to license • 1990 – 10Mpbs Ethernet on UTP • 10BASE-T – inexpensive twisted pair • Massive surge in Ethernet installations
Ethernet Popularity • Coincides with distributed high-performance computing to the desktop • Result • Large networks – many systems • More network aware applications • Massive increase in BW needs
Ethernet Popularity • Result • Need for higher bit rates – fast Ethernet (1995 – 100BaseT) • Shift in Ethernet shared access – to switched Ethernet • High bit rate interconnectivity requirement • Gigabit Ethernet 109 bits per second • (Ethernet frame format maintained)
Network Connection • Network Interface Card – NIC • Attachment Unit Interface – AUI • Medium Attachment Unit – MAU • PHY + MAC – HW • LLC - SW
Network Connection • PLS resides in DTE • Data o/p • Data I/p • Carries Sense • Error Sense • MAC • Data output in NRZ format
Network Connection • MAC • Data output in NRZ format • PLS Manchester encoding – differential • AUI cable – 3 different signal pairs • DO • DI • CI (control input)
Network Connection • AUI cable – 3 different signal pairs • Max length 50m • 15 pin connectors • Female on the DTE side • Male on the MAU side
Network Connection • MAU – Transceiver • Transmit data • Receive data • Loopback • Collision detection • SQE test • Jabber protection
Bus Technologies • 10BASE5 – Thicknet – coaxial • 10BASE2 – Thinnet, coaxial – cheapernet • 10BASE-T – Twisted Pair
10BASE5 Thicknet • Early 80s standard • Tapped Bus topology – 50 ohm coax cable • Maximum 500 m segment length • 100 users per segment • Max 4 repeaters
10BASE5 Thicknet • Transceivers separated by 2.5m • AUI- NIC to transceiver max 50 m
10BASE2 Thinnet • 1989 standard BNC ( British Navel Connector) • Less expensive cable – flexible – to the desktop • Max segment size 185m, max nodes 30 • Max length with repeaters – 925 m • Min distance between MAU = 0.5m
10BASE-T Twisted Pair • Uses standard voice grade telephone cable • 1990 – IEEE 802.3i UTP standard • 4 twisted pairs • Star topology – logically bus • Hub – repeater at the centre • Signal restoration • Repeated incoming signal in all output ports
10BASE-T Twisted Pair • Advantages of star • Cable distance 100m to repeater • MAUs can be connected via AUI • MAU & AUI can be part of DTE or repeater
10BASE-FL • Runs over 2 strands of single/multimode fibre • Fibre distance between MAU – 2000m • Point-to-point links
Functions of a NIC • Create and Check CRC - error detection • Physical Addressing • Medium Access • Framing - encapsulate & decapsulate data • Encoding Data • Connection to Physical Medium • Transceiver - translates signal to medium specific signal
Physical MAC addresses • Unique Addresses • assigned by the IEEE • 48 bit address in two parts • First 24 bits specify the vendor (block number) • ex. AA-00-00 is a DEC NIC board • ex. 08-20-00 is SUN • Next 24 bits are a unique serial number
MAC addressing • Static • Most common • Vendor guaranteed uniqueness • Configurable • SW assigned MAC address • Dynamic • Random pick and check for uniqueness
Types of addresses • Broadcast • Multicast • Unicast
Broadcast addresses • A MAC address of all one’s • All NIC’s on a network accept broadcast addressed messages
Multicast addresses • A specific MAC address that only certain NIC are programmed to accept • the first bit of the destination address is set to 1
Unicast addresses • A unique MAC address assigned to each NIC which is used to send messages to that specific host. • the first bit of the destination address is set to 0
Ethernet Operation • Broadcast/half duplex network • On a bus topology • Listen first then transmit if clear • What to do if you collide • Backoff and try again
CSMA/CD • LAN transmissions operate on the idea of a bit period • For 10baseT this is 100ns (10,000,000 bits/sec) • 3 times to keep track of • Slot time • Interframe gap • Jam period
Timings • Slot time – min time transmitter needs to access media to transmit smallest frame • All nodes must listen for 1 slot time before transmitting • 512 bit periods or 51.2 µsec • Interframe Gap (dead time) – space between transmissions of 96 bit periods or 9.6 µsec
Timings • On collision • All stations involved stop transmitting and transmit 32 bit time (3.2 µsec) jam signal • All attached stations hear the jam signal • Back-off algorithm used to determine when another attempt will be made • This is done up to 16 times
Ethernet Operations • Min frame size: 64 bytes (72 counting preamble and SFD) • 64 bytes incl CRC, control, addresses and data fields (64 x 8 x 100ns = 51.2 µsec) • Max size is 1526 bytes