Networking author Howard C. Berkowitz provides tips on avoiding and fixing data link network failures in Part 3 of his series.

The Data Link Layer is one of my favorite layers of the OSI Model. Like a father who loves ALL of his children equally, but in different ways, I also love the other layers, but Layer 2 will always ...

The data link layer is responsible for transmitting packets of information across the link between hosts. If the link is shared by many hosts (for example, a LAN) this layer also specifies how access ...

In networking and communications, the formats, codes and procedures for transmitting a unit of data (frame, packet) from one node to another. Known as a "layer 2 protocol," the data link protocol ...

Layer 2 of the OSI model is where we find the Data Link Layer, which provides the mechanism by which data is transferred from node to node across a network.