What is a SWITCH? // FREE CCNA // Day 1

[@linkguy30]

Finally a networking video that shows the actual hardware, visuals are very helpful.

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Feel you

[@santelices1]

could not agree more with you!

[@mattferrigno9750]

You can't google a picture of a switch? It's literally a metal box with a bunch of RJ-45 connections.

[@ff1077]

Can confirm. As a strong visual learner, this would be a great tool to use if I had the hardware.

[@NicholasWiewiora]

@@mattferrigno9750 You can, but seeing someone talk about it while holding it, pointing to different parts of it, is much more helpful than looking at a picture on the internet.

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What school? Sounds just like me lol. Have to teach myself anyway

[@calmhorizons]

It's a University in Ireland - our AOSN - Architecture, Operating Systems and Networks teacher was probably the most tedious man I've ever met. And I've sat in 4 hour long board meetings, so that is saying something!@@natashanichole1027

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[@nonapplicable3395]

You really ought to be learning this from someone who actually earned the cert, and not this shmuck

[@devamalya]

Amazing work Chuck ! :) Just a small add on. The way the switch learns the MAC for the first time is by forwarding the packet on all ports, except the one it came on. Only the intended recipient replies. Now the switch records the source MAC of the reply packet in the MAC Address table. Next time it knows which port to forward it on, since it is already recorded in the table.

[@Harisankarbs]

Thanks bro..The video was so inclusive and then i fell into the loop "How does the switch know the mac of the dest if the CAM doesnt have it at first????" Even in my computer the simulation showed the switch send the packets to everyone out there for the first time. I got confused. Now you saved me. BTW i am a newbie

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[@synacktra]

It's uses ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) which sends the broadcast message

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To be fair, this is a video, not a class room where you're teaching it over and over and over.

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I was having the same problem, thanks for clearing that up.

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How is it adjusted ?

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Thanks, you're a lifesaver. :) Some extra info for those who want to know exactly how to fix this: just go click on the wireless Tablet icon in the topology, click the Desktop tab, then press IP config. If your IPv4 is blank just type in the IP address as shown in the video associated with the tablet and it should automatically configure the rest of the IPs. That's at least what it did for me. I was able to proceed with the lab with this.

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Hey Sean, I am in the exact same boat. Been working through Daves course but feel like I have some knowledge gaps or Dave assumes some knowledge. Do you have those same moments while working through the Udemy material? How do you go with most of his labs?

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@C Green At the beginning i wasn't doing good in his labs, i realized that i'm not practicing enough, so i made my own topology and i tried troubleshooting it, when i don't understand something or i needed some help i go to the Network Engineering Stack Exchange: networkengineering.stackexchange.com/ website and i post my questions in there, very helpful people there, after troubleshooting my own topology, i noticed big difference and i started to complete every lab that i had to answer after.

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Gosh you are such an amazing teacher. 2years later this video is still outstanding, I am just understanding this explicitly for the first time. Super excited to learn the others. The best part is I barely stumbled on this video. Thank you a great deal

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[@tasnianishat3194]

loved the ping n reply part...of course, the playlist is much appreciated one.

[@EckoCross]

Question: Switches only knows about mac addresses as it only deals with layer 2. But when you sent a ping command from your computer to another ip address, how does the switch know what mac address that ip address is mapped to? U didnt send "ping mac address" but ping ip address. Much appreciated if someone can clarify this for me thanks

[@aah2300]

Also had this question, from my understanding, when Laptop A pings Laptop B for the first time it sends out an ARP request to the switch to send that request out to everyone asking for the MAC address associated with that ip address. In this case laptop B says that's mine and sends back that MAC address to Laptop A where it's stored in the ARP cache of that computer. Now laptop A layer 2 frame sent to the switch has both MAC addresses

[@KaboBryanDim]

L3 switch

[@esantosh91]

Same query: My view: I think for first blank Mac frame switch broadcast that frame to all interface. Then on reply it create CAM table.

[@Mr.Shannon.456]

The computer creates a Layer 3 IP packet with its own IP address as the SOURCE IP and the destination IP address as the DESTINATION IP. This IP packet is only read by routers and other devices (such as computers and servers). Switches cannot read the IP packet. Your question is how then does the switch know where to send the packet? The computer has an ARP cache where it maps the IP address to the MAC address of other devices on the same network. The computer encapsulates (aka encloses) the Layer 3 IP packet with a Layer 2 frame. The Layer 2 frame contains the SOURCE MAC and the DESTINATION MAC addresses (from the computer's ARP cache). The switch reads the Layer 2 frame (containing the MAC addresses) but the switch never reads the Layer 3 packet (containing the IP addresses). The receiving computer will remove the Layer 2 frame and read the Layer 3 IP packet.

[@rohanofelvenpower5566]

hey I see a couple questions asking this. although chuck showed the packet tracer information of a packet/frame visually you still might not get it until you study OSI model and the smaller parts in a frame. So let me try to explain this quickly we mentioned the OSI model with Levels or Layer - these are mostly theoretical Because only Layer 1 actually moves data about as electricity!, so Layer 1 lives in the real world with you and me ;) and the other 6 layers up are all in the head of the computer!. [Off-topic: Layer 1 is discussed in thereal world for speed of data transfer and that's shown in BITS, so Kb or Mb with a small B. So when you torrent illegal stuff or you upload to your google drive you some 'speed' it's actually in BITS. Anything above that or mental stuff is in BYTES. Standard 8 bytes. Like a Sandwich 8 ingredients in EVERY byte ! :D ham, lettuce, pepperoni, cheese, another type of cheese, tomatoes, bread and sauce (mayonnaise please) That a capital B, so KB, MB, GB. This is always and all the data at rest. Stored magically on your hard drive (HDD) or the newer solid state drives with chips instead of magnetic disks (SDD). Sometimes google, apple, facebook, etc they show your amount of space on their drive as bits with a small b with is WRONG! ON THEIR PART! But most people have no idea. Trust me, this is the school of it, small bits for data transfer as electricity inside wires going under the sea or signals going up to space to a satellite. Once it is in. The receiving device, whatever it is, will *ALWAYS* read it as BYTES (groups of 8 bits). Because it was de-encapsulated or written into electricity FROM Bytes, moves as electricity (as 1 or 0) in bits, then gets read or encapsulated as BYTES again. The same information from the other end!] Ok a bit long sorry:D Because wires can only read or receive ONE bit a time. We need rules GOLDEN RULE NUMBER ONE!: Maximum transmission size of 1500 bytes. [not bits! computers don't speak bits, only wires do] So about 1.5 KB. Like a really small notepad document with GTA codes or a christmass shopping list. ALWAYS even if you transfer 200 TERABYTES as company data or 2MEGABYTES as a picture, gets broken into 1.5Kb. Now you need headers: Source IP address, destination IP address, Mac source and destination, ports, and much more! These go INSIDE THE MTU of 1.5KB. So you can actually send 1.4KB something of data NOT 1.5 KB. >> Mostly the headers size are produced automatically. But sometimes you adjust manually on the router such as with GRE for example. (it's a CCNP topic...a routing protocol for sending stuff over the internet). So this stuff of 1.5KB has many names but it's the same thing. It's a DATA UNIT or Protocol Data Unit - PDU. L2 - Frames L3 - Packets L4 - Segment if using TCP or Datagram if using UDP (only tcp and udp are used at Layer 4 basically...) L5, 6, 7 - just data really....it's called data :D so it has MANY NAMES but it's ONE DUDE!^ remember the faceless people from Game of Thrones? :D So these packets contain BOTH mac addresses AND ip addresses. Switches simply are programmed to not read layer 3. They receive the information of layers 3, 4 and the data but do not read it. They don't know how. Similarly routers don't read the layer 2 frame information! So you have a cisco network. And you bring a new host to a switch. It has a MAC address from the factory! but not IP...the IP address can change over time!! ever hid you PCs IP address? VPN...Proxy...Tor... [you can change the MAC address too using special software, of course, but the BIOS of your devices motherboard has the MAC address in it no matter what - unless you mess up the BIOS settings :/ ] - this is what they do with wi-fi in coffee shops. Get your laptop and buy a cheap wifi USB antenna from amazon. Because wifi acts like a HUB as chuck said in the video, you pay attention to the packets, wait for something from the router, see it's mac address. Wait for a login packet from a customers phone or laptop. See his MAC address. And now "spoof" your mac and IP address with software, probably using Kali Linux, you pretend to be one of them and get in. So a hub is like computer authentication in a building with NO CCTV. Just plug something in the key hole. A switch is a human bodyguard with a uniform.

[@0x404-w5w]

So far so good! Thanks for putting so much effort into these videos!

[@d3rfv547]

I'm 35 years old.. starting to work on my dream of being a network engineer. I hope I'm not to late in making this decision. Thank God I found your channel.. Thank you for making it a Fun learning!👍

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I must say, first and foremost your content designing is just amazing. By far have not ever came across any such channel that had created such extensive content on each topic. i landed on your channel really very late but better late than never. so thanks to youtube for populating your channel . second, your way of explaining stuffs in a fun way is just another cherry on the cake. and then the practice questions. Amalgamation of all 3 above make your channel one of the best places to learn.

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Hey Chuck, love this and will be using it in my high school cyber security class (that requires a background in networking to take the CompTIA Sec+ exam). Do you have a Patreon? I'd love to support you.

[@appmania2180]

@@Crowd_Surfer5.0 Just wondering what job are you working at currently and what would you say the pros and cons of it are? I'm actually a uni student looking to switch into a different field.

[@Crowd_Surfer5.0]

@@appmania2180 I’m a Network Engineer... pros are definitely money ... cons are there’s always someone or something that will make you feel stupid

[@distantsoil]

@@Crowd_Surfer5.0 I am not a network engineer, I feel stupid every day. I’ve been doing this “IT Thing” for nearly fifteen years and have always worked for companies that have a separate networking team, leading me to be an expert on other things, I now don’t have that luxury and now need to learn networking and get a CCNA in a short space of time. I know what a VLAN is. I don’t know much else. God help me

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lol please look at this positively! But I dont think you enjoy the field or subject. I really hope you find that

[@happybeans415]

Hey Chuck, love the channel you created and thanks for making content like this for new people like me. I have one question/constructive criticism about the video. I was not able to follow along in the lab after the 16:05 min time stamp. At this point in the video is when you added IP addresses for the tablet pc on the wireless network somehow, but did not include any info as to how to do that. it was "click, click, done" and on with the lesson. For noobs like me even the basic stuff has to be spelled out. I have been to several forums and several you tube videos but can not find anyone to explain that basic step and as a result the rest of the lab was useless because without IP addresses no communication. Thanks for what you do.

[@ramusvinicini]

I'm sure I'm late to help you but for anyone else with this problem... Click on the tablet and under Config > Global > Settings - there is an option to enter an IP address under default Gateway within the Gateway/DNS IPv4 box.

[@deepaks.m.6709]

Awesome video! To those who're wondering "how the destination MAC address is known with just their IP address?", you need to look at *ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)* which is responsible for that function. Happy learning! :)

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THIS GUY IS SO CHARASMATIC AND LIVELY! IT WAS SO ENGAGING TO LEARN! THANK YOU!!! It is so hard listening to monotoned lessons, especially with no examples.

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Such a video I never seen , what a sinario! Amazing 👌

[@riderkiko9852]

This is my first step in switching career from a Technical Support Engineer to a Network Engineer. Thank you Network Chuck..!!

[@jharper8840]

I’m starting a cyber security job very soon and these videos have been incredibly helpful this man knows how to break down info and keep it as bites size and understandable as possible. Thankyou for helping all of us you sir are a real one much love ❤️🧠

[@stuartwill1992]

"I did not ping you Lisa! I did nooot!"

[@willysatrionugroho8086]

Lisa? Local Integrated System Architecture. Well, she's old.

[@yosuanthegreat]

Poor Mr. Hub, got insulted throughout the entirety of the video

[@Disgruntled_Old_Man]

1). D 2). D 3). Oh boo! I thought he said ten questions.

[@priyadarside753]

I was just looking for a computer network course, not to write any exam, but to enhance my knowledge a bit more. Couldn't able to find any, tried a few and spend a few hours on those other videos, those were less engaging and not cleary discussing everything. This one is by far the best Computer Network course I've watched. Well done @NetworkChuck. If anyone is here in the comment section before starting this course, just to get the feedback, guys C'mon just give it a shot, If you just start with Day Zero, there is no going back. You will surely finish it. Good luck🤗

[@dawittesfasion3211]

I love your passion. This was what I was trying to find "the best instructor" who can help to get my CCNA. I am sure this video will help me not only to pass the test but, also to have solid foundation. Thank you

[@mrgregorygerald]

Gosh, you just seem like such a nice, kind and enthusiastic man. It's a joy learning from you Chuck!

[@utkarshpathak9498]

Hey Chuck the link for the lab isn't working

[@Ex-hindu-w3w]

Go ask modi

[@explainbong6251]

Ex hindu?😅​@@Ex-hindu-w3w

[@magdosandor8051]

First 5 minutes of this video: "Isn't that amazing?!"

[@onlineph]

Keep the light shining and burning Chuck! Your teaching model is high-level which is what the world needs!

[@brittniekay]

I am just starting to learn about IT/Networking, and wanting to do a career change from administrative work to something related to IT. I plan on getting my CCNA as a starting point. I kind of already knew the basics of a Network Infrastructure BUT this video really helped dive deeper into one aspect of the Network (Switches). I am so excited to watch the rest of them. The visuals and analogies used to explain each part is very helpful to me, as I am not an atypical leaner. Thanks so much and looking forward to more content.

[@gingineerdioswa]

Noob question, how did you add the IP Addresses on those 3 Tablets? Thank you!

[@justinblair9661]

If you know the network address (192.168.10.0, or 200.200.10.0, for a couple of examples) and how many hosts you can have in your network (subnetting), you can configure it manually (static) with any of the IP addresses in your network. Or, just use DHCP and the device set up to provide an IP address (a router or a DHCP server, for example) automagically (dynamic)..

[@ozyscotty]

Yeah that stumped me too!

[@bajbaj4977]

@@ozyscotty hey man anyone help you out with the answer im stumped aswell

[@ozyscotty]

@@bajbaj4977 no mate no such luck

[@bajbaj4977]

@@ozyscotty watched the rest of the video and realised we don't need it right now ahah

[@kothapallimitesh4163]

How did he add the IP addresses for the tablets can anyone clarify this for me ???

[@mihirkatoch1110]

He didn't add it manualy. The switch figures it out automaticaly by useing a protocol named DHCP which you will learn later.

[@ramjanaki7820]

Yes I can, just drop u mail id here .

[@TheFrancisChowdhury]

@@mihirkatoch1110 please show me the way. Thank you in advance.

[@joshb.76]

Did i miss a step in packet tracer my wireless network didn’t have any IP addresses?

[@mavericks.9638]

and i couldnt figure out how to add the ip addresses the way he did em @ 16:07

[@borne_flocker]

@@mavericks.9638 I'm stuck too. Any ideas?

[@luciusmcinnisjr1984]

Same here, I was looking around on how to add the IP and couldn't figure it out. If anyone has please share, thanks in advance.

[@nathanfravel2886]

Not sure if this is how to properly configure it, but...if you click on the wireless client(tablet pc0,1,2) that brings up a window. Then click on "Config" at the top. Then under INTERFACE on the left, click Wireless0. And make sure in IP Configuration select Static and input the IPv4 Address and Submet Mask (255.255.255.0).

[@mannysoto5088]

Best KZbinr ever. You exponentially made me far more interested in IT/Cyber security than I have been. (Been working on security +, and networking +) it’s been very intimidating to try to learn but your videos make it so easy to understand and gives me hope I can switch into this new, exciting career.

[@okeregodwin7479]

Honestly I don't think I've really commented on any KZbin video that I've learnt from until I watched this video, you're exceptional and I enjoy your passion when you teach networking. You swept me off my feet so I had to subscribe to your channel. 💯Good Job and thanks to Boson for sponsoring this video

[@samsam-zu7zc]

17:16 How the "frame" PDU is containing the Mac address of the destination device? when we ping, we pinged on the IP address, not on the MAC address, we didn't give the ping command the MAC, we just gave it the IP, so how the "frame" now contains the MAC address of the destination device? In other words: How the IP address of the destination device is matching the MAC address of the destination device? In other words: Switches are layer 2 devices, they don't know what is an IP address, they just know MAC addresses. In other words: there should be an ARP "frame" that is being sent to the switch first to match the IP address "we passed to the ping command" with the destination MAC address. right?

[@charafeddinetoumi7332]

it's like a box ... ip is inside the box ... but mac src and dest is always on the box ... so it's sent hyperthericly

[@rohanofelvenpower5566]

hey I see a couple questions asking this. although chuck showed the packet tracer information of a packet/frame visually you still might not get it until you study OSI model and the smaller parts in a frame. So let me try to explain this quickly we mentioned the OSI model with Levels or Layer - these are mostly theoretical Because only Layer 1 actually moves data about as electricity!, so Layer 1 lives in the real world with you and me ;) and the other 6 layers up are all in the head of the computer!. [Off-topic: Layer 1 is discussed in thereal world for speed of data transfer and that's shown in BITS, so Kb or Mb with a small B. So when you torrent illegal stuff or you upload to your google drive you some 'speed' it's actually in BITS. Anything above that or mental stuff is in BYTES. Standard 8 bytes. Like a Sandwich 8 ingredients in EVERY byte ! :D ham, lettuce, pepperoni, cheese, another type of cheese, tomatoes, bread and sauce (mayonnaise please) That a capital B, so KB, MB, GB. This is always and all the data at rest. Stored magically on your hard drive (HDD) or the newer solid state drives with chips instead of magnetic disks (SDD). Sometimes google, apple, facebook, etc they show your amount of space on their drive as bits with a small b with is WRONG! ON THEIR PART! But most people have no idea. Trust me, this is the school of it, small bits for data transfer as electricity inside wires going under the sea or signals going up to space to a satellite. Once it is in. The receiving device, whatever it is, will *ALWAYS* read it as BYTES (groups of 8 bits). Because it was de-encapsulated or written into electricity FROM Bytes, moves as electricity (as 1 or 0) in bits, then gets read or encapsulated as BYTES again. The same information from the other end!] Ok a bit long sorry:D Because wires can only read or receive ONE bit a time. We need rules GOLDEN RULE NUMBER ONE!: Maximum transmission size of 1500 bytes. [not bits! computers don't speak bits, only wires do] So about 1.5 KB. Like a really small notepad document with GTA codes or a christmass shopping list. ALWAYS even if you transfer 200 TERABYTES as company data or 2MEGABYTES as a picture, gets broken into 1.5Kb. Now you need headers: Source IP address, destination IP address, Mac source and destination, ports, and much more! These go INSIDE THE MTU of 1.5KB. So you can actually send 1.4KB something of data NOT 1.5 KB. >> Mostly the headers size are produced automatically. But sometimes you adjust manually on the router such as with GRE for example. (it's a CCNP topic...a routing protocol for sending stuff over the internet). So this stuff of 1.5KB has many names but it's the same thing. It's a DATA UNIT or Protocol Data Unit - PDU. L2 - Frames L3 - Packets L4 - Segment if using TCP or Datagram if using UDP (only tcp and udp are used at Layer 4 basically...) L5, 6, 7 - just data really....it's called data :D so it has MANY NAMES but it's ONE DUDE!^ remember the faceless people from Game of Thrones? :D So these packets contain BOTH mac addresses AND ip addresses. Switches simply are programmed to not read layer 3. They receive the information of layers 3, 4 and the data but do not read it. They don't know how. Similarly routers don't read the layer 2 frame information! So you have a cisco network. And you bring a new host to a switch. It has a MAC address from the factory! but not IP...the IP address can change over time!! ever hid you PCs IP address? VPN...Proxy...Tor... [you can change the MAC address too using special software, of course, but the BIOS of your devices motherboard has the MAC address in it no matter what - unless you mess up the BIOS settings :/ ] - this is what they do with wi-fi in coffee shops. Get your laptop and buy a cheap wifi USB antenna from amazon. Because wifi acts like a HUB as chuck said in the video, you pay attention to the packets, wait for something from the router, see it's mac address. Wait for a login packet from a customers phone or laptop. See his MAC address. And now "spoof" your mac and IP address with software, probably using Kali Linux, you pretend to be one of them and get in. So a hub is like computer authentication in a building with NO CCTV. Just plug something in the key hole. A switch is a human bodyguard with a uniform.

[@peter9853]

@@rohanofelvenpower5566 exception on golden rule number 1: jumbo frames :p

[@skywalkertube120]

cisco packet tracer doesn't download anymore 2022

[@hshanlan]

I had to comment on this. You are a rockstar teacher. You explained this in such clarity that I am understanding this in ways far more than how it is taught in my current classes. You are a phenomenal teacher!!! God Bless

[@alial-muhtaseb2977]

Stumbled upon your course in a sea of them. Honestly very satisfied for the first two days, and as an18 year old your way of teaching is just not boring and actually makes me want to learn. Keep going!

[@ImranKhan-qn9ty]

There is absolutely no reason to not like this video. The way you explain stuffs are just awesome 👍

[@dennisjoaquin1379]

I'm working in BPO and hoping to switch career to become network engineer. Im really happy at my age of 30 I'm able to answer the questions correct. That gives me hope that someday I will become a network engineer. Thank you for giving us insight on how ccna works. You earn a subs.

[@Mamakaz86]

I'm just starting my CompTIA A+ journey and Switches, Hubs and Routers etc have confused me no end. Your videos have made so much sense to me so thank you 😊

[@isaacmallinson2654]

Best networking tutor online or offline! Pretty much the sole reason I started my IT journey. Thank you Chuck!

[@justushusmer2027]

Absolutely amazing can’t believe I’m paying thousands for college when you do such a better job!!! Thank you so much

[@MJFUYT]

Know this is old thread. But, I want to commend Chuck on his excellent teaching style. Really appreciate you sharing the knowledge!

[@Alpha-Omega33]

I am so so grateful for this videos! My instructors could not explain that well! I am given facts-this is this this is that, but no explanation of what exactly is happening... This is a BIG help! Thank you!

[@heshammohamed8701]

i had been working in electronic for 9 years and you are so amazing in explaining things and you made be so interested in networking even though i thought it is going to be so boring because i am hardware programmer,, man you are so amazing keep going !!

[@SamusLovesMilk]

My three years university program, Network and Systemadministration, have just started, and it's perfect that I found your channel. This sure will help me get a kick start

[@arnieboy2004]

Brilliant teaching mate, studied A+ and Net + many years ago for my MCP but never got a job in IT , I have always been a computer geek and am so interested in the CCNA stuff just feel at 55 yrs oldie may be too late for me now .....but I'm still trying to learn now thanks to you. Thank you 👍

[@NicholasLysyuk]

love how everything is broken down and explained in this video! very intuitive

[@akeemthedream10]

Just completed Comptia Network+ course with professor messer to understand basics. Looking to pass my CCNA in June. Love that you include all these free resources. You the man Network Chuck!!