Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Ethernet_Basic_points

=> Ethernet frame begins with preamble and start frame delimiter. Following which, each Ethernet frame continues with an Ethernet header featuring destination and source Mac addresses.

==> The middle section of the frame is payload data including any headers for other protocols (e.g. Internet Protocol) carried in the frame.


==> The frame ends with a 32-bit cyclic redundancy check which is used to detect any corruption of data in transit.