Timeline for Basic understanding of network operation
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| Sep 1, 2017 at 16:44 | comment | added | Rowan Hawkins | If it helps, to think of it this way, the MAC address only survives on the network segment to which it is attached. The devices on the segment track which MACs are active on segments they are attached to. When the packet transitions network segments the header is striped and replaced by the device that is redirecting the traffic.That could be any Layer 2 device, not just a router, but even some switches. | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 16:44 | comment | added | Ron Maupin♦ | I believe I did. The link between the two routers is one network, and both routers will share that network and have addresses on that network. | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 16:43 | comment | added | rahul sharma | Sure.Will do that. .Please visit my previous comment once. | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 16:43 | vote | accept | rahul sharma | ||
| Aug 17, 2017 at 16:42 | vote | accept | rahul sharma | ||
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| Aug 17, 2017 at 15:32 | comment | added | Ron Maupin♦ | @rahulsharma, If this answered your question, you should accept the answer so that the question doesn't keep popping up forever, looking for an answer. | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 16:32 | comment | added | Ron Maupin♦ | Yes. If the link between the routers uses a protocol with MAC addresses, then the source MAC address will be R1's, and the destination MAC address will be R2's. The frame is created for the protocol on the interface. It has nothing to do with any protocol on any other interface. R2 will be in the same network as R1 on the link between them. | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 16:09 | comment | added | rahul sharma | Thank you @RonMaupin for you answer.This is exactly what i was looking for.But I have some confusion here:-Assume that we are using layer -2 protocol so as you mention that router will create the new frames with new MAC address. So this new Mac address means that router R1 will add its own MAC address as source Mac and R2 Mac address as destination address?Does router R1 has R2's MAc address even even R2 is in different network? | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 2:10 | comment | added | Ron Maupin♦ | I think I am just getting them before you do. I don't actually type very fast, and I need to go back and edit what I type (a lot). | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 2:08 | comment | added | Ron Trunk | You type faster than humanly possible ;) | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 2:07 | history | answered | Ron Maupin♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |