[Info-vax] Rethinking DECNET ?

[Neil Rieck]

On Thursday, September 4, 2014 8:02:55 AM UTC-4, Johnny Billquist wrote:

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> This actually leads me to pet networking peeve #2 (right after trying to
> fit TCP/IP into the OSI 7 layer model). Networks using ethernet are not  
> using 802.3, in spite of all kind of people thinking so.
> 
> They are using Ethernet II. The difference between 802.3 and Ethernet II  
> is one small and simple thing, but a very important one. 
> There is a 16-bit field in the frame, which in Ethernet II is the  
> protocol number, while in 802.3 is the frame length.

> No one uses 802.3...
 
> 	Johnny

That's a new one for me. Thanks.

Neil