EtherType
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ethertype-177-3669621
title:
EtherType
text:
EtherType is a two-octet field in an Ethernet frame. It is used to indicate which protocol is encapsulated in the payload of the frame and is used at the receiving end by the data link layer to determine how the payload is processed. The same field is also used to indicate the size of some Ethernet frames. EtherType is also used as the basis of 802.1Q VLAN tagging, encapsulating packets from VLANs for transmission multiplexed with other VLAN traffic over an Ethernet trunk. EtherType was first de
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encyclopedia
description:
Field in Ethernet frames indicating which protocol is encapsulated in the payload
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherType
date created:
2002-11-09T17:39:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T22:53:25Z
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