Application Layer Functionality and Protocols
Network Fundamentals – Chapter 3
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Objectives
 Define the application layer as the source and
destination of data for communication across
networks.
 Explain the role of protocols in supporting
communication between server and client
processes.
 Describe the features, operation, and use of
well-known TCP/IP application layer services
(HTTP, DNS, SMTP).
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Context Index
3.1 Applications - The Interface Between the Networks
3.2 Making Provisions for Applications and Services
3.3 Application Layer Protocols and Services Examples
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3.1 Applications - The Interface Between
the Networks
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Applications – The Interface Between Human
and Data Networks
 it is important to know how an application is able to format,
transmit and interpret messages that are sent and received across
the network
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3.1.1 OSI and TCP/IP Model
 The OSI model divides
the networking process
into seven logical layers,
each of which has
unique functionality and
to which are assigned
specific services and
protocols.
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3.1.1 OSI and TCP/IP Model
 Role of applications, services and protocols in converting
communication to data that can be transferred across the
data network.
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3.1.1 OSI and TCP/IP Model
 TCP/IP application layer protocols fit roughly into the
framework of the top three layers of the OSI model:
Application, Presentation and Session layers.
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3.1.1 OSI and TCP/IP Model
 The most widely-known TCP/IP Application layer
protocols are those that provide for the exchange of
user information.
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3.1.2 Application Layer Software<
 The functions associated with the Application layer
protocols enable our human network to interface with
the underlying data network.
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3.1.3 User Applications, Services, and
Application Layer Protocols
 As mentioned previously, the Application layer uses
protocols that are implemented within applications and
services.
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3.1.4 Application Layer Protocol Functions
 Application layer protocols provide the rules for
communication between applications.
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3.2 Making Provisions for Applications
and Services
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3.2.1 The Client-Sever Model
 In the client/server model, the device requesting the
information is called a client and the device responding
to the request is called a server.
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3.2.2 Servers
 Servers are repositories of information. Processes
control the delivery of files to clients.
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3.2.3 Application Layer Services and Protocols
 Server processes may support multiple clients.
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3.2.4 Peer-to-Peer Networking and
Applications (p2p)
 In a peer-to-peer network, two or more computers are
connected via a network and can share resources
(such as printers and files) without having a dedicated
server.
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3.2.4 Peer-to-Peer Networking and
Applications (p2p)
 A peer-to-peer application (P2P), unlike a peer-to-peer
network, allows a device to act as both a client and a
server within the same communication.
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3.3 Application Layer Protocols and
Services Examples
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3.3.1 DNS Services and Protocol
 Most people have a hard time remembering numeric IP
address. Hence, domain names were created to
convert the numeric address into a simple,
recognizable name.
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3.3.1 DNS Services and Protocol
 Computer operating systems also have a utility called
nslookup that allows the user to manually query the
name servers to resolve a given host name.
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3.3.1 DNS Services and Protocol
 The DNS server stores different types of resource
records used to resolve names. These records contain
the name, address, and type of record.
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3.3.1 DNS Services and Protocol
 A hierarchy of DNS servers contains the resource
records that match names with addresses.
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3.3.2 WWW Service and HTTP
 When a web address (or URL) is typed into a web
browser, the web browser establishes a connection to
the web service running on the server using the HTTP
protocol.
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3.3.2 WWW Service and HTTP
 In response to the request, the HTTP server returns
code for a web page.
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3.3.2 WWW Service and HTTP
 The browser interprets the HTML code and displays a
web page.
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3.3.2 WWW Service and HTTP
 Entering ‘http://www.cisco.com’ in the address bar of a
web browser generates the HTTP ‘GET’ Message.
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3.3.3 E-mail Services and SMTP/POP Protocols
 Clients send e-mails to a server using SMTP and
receive e-mails using POP3.
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3.3.3 E-mail Services and SMTP/POP Protocols
 E-mail Server – MTA
 The mail Transfer Agent process governs e-mail
handling between servers and servers.
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3.3.3 E-mail Services and SMTP/POP Protocols
 E-mail Server – MDA
 The mail Delivery Agent process governs delivery of email between servers and clients.
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3.3.3 E-mail Services and SMTP/POP Protocols
 SMTP is used to forward e-mail.
 POP is used to deliver e-mail.
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3.3.4 FTP
 FTP was developed to allow for file transfers between a
client and a server.
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3.3.5 DHCP
 The Dynamic Host Confirmation Protocol (DHCP)
service enables devices on a network to obtain IP
addresses and other information from a DHCP server.
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3.3.5 DHCP
 The DHCP server maintains a pool of IP addresses and
leases an address to any DHCP-enabled client when
the client is powered on.
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3.3.6 File Sharing Services and SMB Protocol
 SMB is a client-server, request-response protocol.
Servers can make their resources available to clients
on the network.
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3.3.6 File Sharing Services and SMB Protocol
 A file may be copied from PC to PC with Windows
Explorer using the SMB protocol.
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3.3.7 P2P Services and Gnutella Protocol
 With P2P applications based on the Gnutella protocol,
people can make files on their hard disks available to
others for downloading.
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3.3.7 P2P Services and Gnutella Protocol
 Many P2P applications do not use a central database
to record all the files available on the peers.
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3.3.8 Telnet Services and Protocol
 Telnet provides a way to use a computer, connected via the
network, to access a network device as if the keyboard and
monitor were directly connected to the device.
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3.3.8 Telnet Services and Protocol
 Telnet is a client/server protocol and it specifies how a
VTY session is established and terminated.
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Summary
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