IEEE 802
IEEE 802 covers issues concerning all types of networks--local area, metropolitan, and wide area.
As originally written, it only addressed issues related to the first two layers of the OSI networking model--Physical and Data Link.
Several different specifications in the 802 standard are of particular interest in basic networking architectures. In this section, the following specifications are discussed:
- 802.2 - Logical Link Control
- 802.3 - Ethernet
- 802.4 - Token Bus
- 802.5 - Token Ring
- 802.12 - 100VG-AnyLAN; Demand Priority