July 2003
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
11h 51m
English
Figure 6.1 shows the format of an Ethernet frame as defined in the original IEEE 802.3 standard. An Ethernet frame starts with a preamble and ends with a Frame Check Sequence (FCS).

Preamble is a sequence of 56 bits having alternating 1 and 0 values that are used for synchronization. They serve to give components in the network time to detect the presence of a signal, and to begin reading the signal before the frame data arrives. SFD stands for Start Frame Delimiter and is a sequence of 8 bits having the bit configuration 10101011 that indicates the start ...
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