DataLink Layer

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Pendahuluan
 Merupakan Layer 2 pada Model OSI
 Bertujuan menyediakan koneksi antara dua
komputer/host dengan menggunakan
pengalamatan secara fisik/Hardware
Addressing
 Komunikasi hanya bisa terjadi jika kedua
host/komputer yang berkomunikasi tahu
alamat fisik masing-masing
 Pengalamatan secara fisik biasa disebut
MAC Address
 MAC Address Diambilkan dari ID NIC
masing-masing komputer

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MAC (Media Access Control)
Address
 MAC Address terdiri
dari 48 bit tetapi
biasanya ditulis dalam
12 bit Heksadesimal
dengan ketentuan 6
bit sebagai kode pabrik
yang ditentukan oleh
IEEE dan 6 bit
berikunya adalah
nomor serial peralatan
yang dikeluarkan oleh
pabrik

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Pengiriman Data
 Untuk melakukan pengiriman data diperlukan
kombinasi antara pengalamatan secara fisik dan
pengalamatan secara logik
 pengalamatan secara logik biasa disebut dengan IP
Address (nomor IP), berada pada layer network
 Nomor IP diperlukan oleh perangkat lunak untuk
mengidentifikasi komputer pada jaringan
 Namun nomor identitas yang sebenarnya diatur oleh
NIC (Network Interface Card) atau kartu Jaringan
yang juga mempunyai nomor unik.

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Pengiriman data pada DataLink
Layer
 Penentuan waktu pengiriman data yang tepat apabila
suatu media sedang terpakai, hal ini perlu melakukan
suatu deteksi sinyal pembawa.
 Pada Ethernet menggunakan metode Carrier Sense
Multiple Access / Collision Detection (CSMA/CD).
 Pada jaringan yang dapat melakukan akses secara
bersamaan simultan. Maka bila Host A mengirimkan
data ke Host D, maka Host B dan C akan melakukan
deteksi jalur, dan apabila jalur sedang dipakai maka
Host B dan C akan menunggu terlebih dahulu.

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Metode CSMA/CD
 sebuah host komputer yang akan mengirim data ke
jaringan pertama-tama memastikan bahwa jaringan
sedang tidak dipakai untuk transfer dari dan oleh host
komputer lainnya (Listen).
 Jika pada tahap pengecekan ditemukan transmisi data
lain dan terjadi tabrakan (collision), maka host
komputer tersebut diharuskan mengulang
permohonan (request) pengiriman pada selang waktu
berikutnya yang dilakukan secara acak (random).
 Dengan demikian maka jaringan efektif bisa
digunakan secara bergantian

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Error Checking Pengiriman Data
 Data-Link dapat melakukan deteksi error
dan memberikan peringatan (notification)
kepada lapisan diatasnya,bahwa terjadi
kesalahan transmisi.
 Teknik yang digunakan error ddetection
adalah Frame Check Sequence (FCS) dan
Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC).
 Data Link tidak melakukan error-correction

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Data Pada DataLink Layer

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Generic Data Link Frame
Format

Preamble or Start Field

 When computers are connected to a physical medium, there

must be a way they can grab the attention of other computers

to broadcast the message, "Here comes a frame!"
 Various technologies have different ways of doing this process,

but all frames, regardless of technology, have a beginning

signaling sequence of bytes.
 Depending up frame format: Preamble = 7 bytes, Start or Start

of Frame Delimiter (SFD) = 1 byte

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Generic Data Link Frame
Format

Address Field
 We saw how IEEE 802.3 uses Destination and Source

Addresses.
 By the way: Any idea how a serial data link frame is

addressed?
 Unicast address – Single device
 Broadcast address – All devices
 Multicast address – Specific group of devices
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Generic Data Link Frame
Format

Type Field
 Usually information indicating the layer 3 protocols in the data field, I.e.
IP Packet.
 Type field values of particular note for IEEE 802.3 frames include:
 0x0600 XNS (Xerox)
 0x0800 IP (the Internet protocol)
 0x8137 Novell NetWare packet formatted for Ethernet II
 0x6003 DECNET

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“Ethernet” Frame Formats
Length Field
 In some frame formats such as 802.3, there is a length field which
specifies the exact length of a frame.

802.3

802.3 Engineering Polytechnic

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 IEEE 802.3 specification limits the data portion to a maximum of 1500 bytes.
 Designed to hold a Layer 3 IP packet.
 When IEEE created 802.2, it saw the need for a protocol TYPE field that
identified what was inside the “data” field.
 IEEE called its 1 byte type field DSAP (Destination Service Access Point).
 Turned out that 1 byte was not long enough to handle all the different
number of protocols.

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1. To accommodate more protocols IEEE added the
SNAP (Subnetwork Access Protocol) header.

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 The fields of various Ethernet framing that are used for
identifying the type of data contained in a frame:
 Ethernet II or DIX (DEC, Intel, Xerox) – Most common

 IEEE Ethernet (802.3)

 IEEE 802.3 with SNAP header

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Generic Data Link Frame
Format

Data Field
 Included along with this data, you must also send a few other

bytes.
 They are called padding bytes, and are sometimes added so that

the frames have a minimum length for timing purposes.

 LLC bytes are also included with the data field in the IEEE

standard frames. (later)

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 Data Encapsulation Example

Application Application Layer

Header + data

Layer 4: Transport
Layer

Layer 3: Network Layer

Layer 2:
Network
Layer
01001010010010010011101001000110 Layer 1:
1000… Physical Layer

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Generic Data Link Frame
Format

FCS
 Used to insure that the data has arrived without

corruption.
 More efficient than sending the data twice and

comparing the results.

 Necessary to prevent errors.

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Three Kinds of FCS

 Cyclic redundancy check (CRC)

 performs polynomial calculations on the data
 Two-dimensional parity
 adds an 8th bit that makes an 8-bit sequence have an odd or
even number of binary 1s
 Internet checksum
 adds the numbers to determine a number

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Generic Data Link Frame
Format

Stop Field (Other data link frame formats)

 The computer that transmits data must get the attention of

other devices, in order to start a frame, and then claim it again,

to end the frame.
 The length field implies the end, and the frame is considered

ended after the FCS.

 Sometimes there is a formal byte sequence referred to as an

end-frame delimiter.

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