Almost finished layer 2

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Aadhavan Srinivasan 1 year ago
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The header consists of four fields: The header consists of four fields:
Frame Start - This field indicates the start of a frame (a frame is really just a grouping of bits).
Addresses - This field contains the source and destination MAC addresses.
Type - This identifies the layer 3 protocol that the data uses (more on this later).
Control - This field contains information that's used for flow control, essentially determining the priority of the packet.
The trailer consists of two fields:
Error detection - This field contains a checksum (a mathematical hash) of the data in the frame. This can be used to ensure that the data wasn't corrupted on the way.
Frame stop - This field indicates the end of the frame.

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