What is The Data Link Layer?
This lesson will give us a quick introduction to the data link layer!
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Responsibilities of The Data Link Layer
The data link layer receives packets from the network layer and deals with providing hop to hop communication or communication between entities that are directly connected by a physical link.
In other words, it makes intelligible communication possible over a physical link that just transports 0s and 1s between two directly connected hosts.
Types of Data Link Layers
The data link layer is the lowest layer of the reference model that we will discuss in detail. Data link layer protocols exchange frames that are transmitted through the physical layer. There are three main types of data link ...