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Victor

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Quote:>I posted this once  but it seems very few people know the answer.  I need an
>expert from Sun to help.  I know you are here from time to time.  Does any
>of you know whether Solaris on Sparc machines uses IEEE802.3 or xerox
>ethernet standard by default?

(Actually, I'm wondering if you meant IEEE802.2 verses DIX version 2, and
if so did you mean just for IP or for any protocols?)

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Andrew Gabriel
Consultant Software Engineer

   Are you asking if Solaris uses the Ethertype for TCP/IP on
   ethernet [yes]  or are you asking about some other protocol
   stack such as SNA which also works just fine on the Solaris
   ethernet drivers.

So be clear in what you are looking at ?
Gopi

Quote:> I posted this once  but it seems very few people know the answer.  I
need an
> expert from Sun to help.  I know you are here from time to time.
Does any
> of you know whether Solaris on Sparc machines uses IEEE802.3 or xerox
> ethernet standard by default?
> Thanks in advance.

> Victor

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Before you buy.

Basically, the MAIN difference is that according to DEC-INTEL-XEROX
Ethernet Std.,
the first two bytes after desination-MAC and source-MAC are a
"protocol-type" Field,
while IEEE802.3 wants to have the Ethernet Packet size inserted here
(which is redundant
since the ethernet reception hardware finds this out).
Following bytes in IEEE802.3 are destination and source Service access
points (one byte each),
and one or two bytes "controll".

From this follows that the MTU for IP over 802.3 is smaller than over
DIX-2

Hope this helps,

Juergen Marenda.
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