华北水利水电大学信息工程学院计算机网络课件 Lecture17.pptVIP

Ethernet Widely deployed because: First LAN technology Simpler and less expensive than token LANs and ATM Kept up with the speed race: 10, 100, 1000 Mbps Many E-net technologies (cable, fiber etc). But they all share common characteristics Ethernet Frame Structure Sending adapter encapsulates an IP datagram in Ethernet Frame which contains a Preamble, a Header, Data, and CRC fields Preamble: 7 bytes with the patternfollowed by one byte with the pattern used for synchronizing receiver to sender clock (clocks are never exact, some drift is highly likely) Header contains Dest