Table of Contents - Chapter 9

Hardware Addressing And Frame Type Identification


9.1 Introduction 123
9.2 Specifying A Recipient 124
9.3 How LAN Hardware Uses Addresses To Filter Packets 124
9.4 Format Of A Physical Address 126
9.5 Broadcasting 127
9.6 Multicasting 128
9.7 Multicast Addressing 129
9.8 Identifying Packet Contents 130
9.9 Frame Headers And Frame Format 130
9.10 An Example Frame Format 131
9.11 Using Networks That Do Not Have Self-Identifying Frames 133
9.12 Network Analyzers, Physical Addresses, Frame Types 135
9.13 Summary 136
Exercises S
Exercises 138