To answer your question. No the session layer does not handle IP addressing. IP addressing is handled at layer 3 of the OSI model. That is why routers are known as a layer 3 device, because they route protocols at this level such as IP or IPX ( Another Layer 3 transport protocol). The session layer is a few steps up on the OSI model, it is layer 5. It handles establishing communications maintaining communications alive and the like.
Hope I was of some help Steven M Aiello ""[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Nemeth)"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On May 3, 4:27am, "anil" wrote: > } > } -Anil (PhD [Comp-Sci Tokyo Inst of Technology]- Sister School of MIT) > } Does that count?? > > Since this thread seems to have concluded, I won't belabour the > point. However, comp-sci is a huge field with many specialities and in > many cases, subspecialities. You say that you have a PhD in comp-sci, > but you didn't tell us what the topic of your thesis was or anything > else about your background. For all we know, you could have studied > something human interface design or something else that has nothing to > do with networking. So, saying that you have a PhD in comp-sci really > doesn't tell us anything. > > As another example, somebody on one of the other mailing lists I'm > on tried to claim that you can do full-duplex with a hub. When people > corrected him, he said that he was an Electronics Engineer and that he > should know. Electronics Engineering is a very large field, so unless > he specifically studied physical networking hardware, he wouldn't > know. Anybody that knows anything about networking knows that a hub is > a dumb multiport repeater (i.e. not much more then a signal amplifier) > and therefore can't support full-duplex connections (for that, you need > some smarts). Needless to say, he got thoroughly trounced for his > haughty attitude. > > }-- End of excerpt from "anil" Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=34287&t=28378 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
