Question

Networking

Drawing Tool: Visio Create a network diagram that illustrates a LAN that supports ten clients in a client server environment with a server running Windows Server 2016. The network uses a switch and a router, and networked printer. If Visio is not available on your computer, use creately. Link provided below. https://creately.com/lp/network-diagram-software-online Network Diagram should be clearly labeled 1. Diagram. 2. What is a peer-to-peer network? How does it differ from a client-server?

Answer 1

The Peer-to-Peer model does not distinguish between client and server instead each device connected to internet can either be a client or a server depending on the whether the device is requesting (or downloading) or providing (or uploading) the services. Each device is considered as a peer.

Example: A simple example is torrent where a user acts as client as well as server.

The main difference between the Client-Server and Peer-to-Peer network model is that in Client-Server model, the data management is centralised and data is stored on a centralized server whereas in Peer-to-Peer each node can request for services and each peer has its own data to provide the services. The client-server model is more expensive compared to Peer-to-Peer