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- $Id: etherstuff.txt,v 1.3 91/05/08 16:15:58 rsbx Exp $
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- Ethernet specific information for the SANA_II specification:
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- S2io_DataLength:
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- In the case of 802.3 packets, this field is filled with the
- length field from the DTL.
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- Otherwise, it is the length of the packet data (same as
- NetBuff.Count for non-raw reads).
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- Address format:
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- Ethernet addresses consist of 47 bits of address information and
- a 1 bit multicast flag. The standard for expressing ethernet
- addresses is as 6 bytes (octets) in the order in which the bytes
- are transmitted with the low-order bits in a byte transmitted
- first. The multicast flag bit is the least-significant bit of the
- first byte.
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- Ethernet addresses in a Sana2IOReq occupy the first 6 bytes of
- an address field in transmission order with the low-order bits in
- a byte transmitted first.
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- Raw reads and writes:
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- The data format for a raw read or write is:
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- 6 bytes of destination address,
- 6 bytes of source address,
- 2 bytes of type,
- 64 to 1500 bytes of data,
- 4 bytes CRC value covering all of the above.
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- See Ethernet specifications for more information.
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