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| | The Networking Essentials |
 | | To insulate the transmission from the other ports, the switch establishes a temporary connection between the source and destination, and then terminates the connection when the conversation is done. |
 | | Layer 3 protocols are designed to handle the tasks of route determination, packet fragmentation and reassembly, address assignment on the network level (such as IP), and packet forwarding. |
 | | Simply put, over Ethernet, a user can send data packets only when no other packets are traveling on the network—when the network is "quiet." Otherwise, it waits to transmit, as a person might wait for another to speak during a conversation. |
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