Network

Network Topology

As a quality engineer, we don’t often understand how the network works. It’s worth knowing because when in meetings, or when there is something go wrong, we don’t need to ask for a admin guy to trouble shoot.

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The term network topology refers to the shape of how the computers and other net-work components are connected to each other. There are several different types of network topologies, each with advantages and disadvantages.

Bus topology

In a bus topology, every node on the network can see every packet that’s sent
on the cable. Each node looks at each packet to determine whether the packet
is intended for it. If so, the node claims the packet. If not, the node ignores the
packet. This way, each computer can respond to data sent to it and ignore data sent to other computers on the network.

Star topology

If a cable in a star network breaks, only the node connected to that cable is isolated from the network. The other nodes can continue to operate without ­interruption — unless, of course, the node that’s isolated because of the break happens to…