Ethernet frame

Ethernet packet. The SFD (start frame delimiter) marks the end of the packet preamble. It is immediately followed by the Ethernet frame, which starts with the destination MAC address.[1]

In computer networking, an Ethernet frame is a data link layer protocol data unit and uses the underlying Ethernet physical layer transport mechanisms. In other words, a data unit on an Ethernet link transports an Ethernet frame as its payload.[2]

An Ethernet frame is preceded by a preamble and start frame delimiter (SFD), which are both part of the Ethernet packet at the physical layer. Each Ethernet frame starts with an Ethernet header, which contains destination and source MAC addresses as its first two fields. The middle section of the frame is payload data including any headers for other protocols (for example, Internet Protocol) carried in the frame. The frame ends with a frame check sequence (FCS), which is a 32-bit cyclic redundancy check used to detect any in-transit corruption of data.

  1. ^ 802.3-2018 – IEEE Standard for Ethernet. IEEE. 14 June 2018. doi:10.1109/IEEESTD.2018.8457469. ISBN 978-1-5044-5090-4.
  2. ^ "3.1.1 Packet format". 802.3-2018 – IEEE Standard for Ethernet. IEEE. 14 June 2018. doi:10.1109/IEEESTD.2018.8457469. ISBN 978-1-5044-5090-4.