Textbook assignment

1. Some new techs at your office are confused by the differences between a NIC’s frame and an IP packet. Write a short essay describing the two encapsulations, including the components that do the encapsulating.

2.   Your boss has received a set of files with the file extension .wp and is worried because he’s never seen that extension before. He wants people to have access to the information in those files from anywhere in the network. Write a short memo describing how Microsoft Word can handle these files, including a discussion of how that fits with the OSI seven-layer model.