Layer2DataFramingforFunandProfit.pptVIP

4/27/2001 Layer 2 Data Framing for Fun and Profit Where In the Stack Are We? Layers Upon Layers Synchronous HDLC (SDLC) RFC 1662 (Asynchronous HDLC) Frame Relay RFC 1490 (Multiprotocol in Frame Relay) Four Flavors of Ethernet ATM (cells, AAL5 packets) RFC 1483 (Multiprotocol in AAL5) FUNI Reference formats: DSL, Frame Relay, ATM, DS1, DS3, SONET Synchronous HDLC (aka SDLC) Sends frames (packets) over a serial (synchronous) bit stream Frames are delimited by flags (8 bits: Shared flag closes one frame and opens the next Idle is usually flags, but may be 1s (mark idle) Shared zero fla