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Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years (spectrum.ieee.org)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years::The technology has become the standard LAN worldwide

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Didn't he say that it's a framework for protocols, not a protocol? Or am I parsing the comment incorrectly?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Eh, it's both. Ethernet is layer 2. It is your MAC address, more or less. There's some functionality to it beyond simple hardware addressing, but it provides a scaffold for other, higher layer protocols to operate on top of.

So ethernet, in and of itself is a protocol, and it also provides a framework for other protocols like IP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ah, that makes sense, thanks!