CST 311 Week 8

Week 8

The material for this week is much smaller because it is due the same night that week 7 is supposed to complete. Because of this, it's also been a very rough final week with regard to assignments. The material assigned for this week covered the link layer and switches. This seems like a pretty straightforward topic after covering routers in the previous week(s). The routers send data (datagrams) based on IP addresses and the switched send data (frames) based on MAC addresses. Switches are intended to be used within a network.

I'm really glad this course is coming to an end. I've enjoyed it in the sense that it has been challenging and I feel I've learned a lot, but I'm exhausted and it's been very difficult to maintain my study discipline. There are three days until the final exam. I have spent the past seven weeks studying consistently in my free time. I'll likely relax a little and do some light review each night leading up to it. Because this is not a subject I'm already familiar with, I'm less focused on my grade for this course and have been more focused on actually understanding the material. I know it'll be useful in my career (it already has been a bit!).