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Ethernet Address Internal Structure
The second-to-lowest-order bit of a physical Ethernet address indicates whether that address…
Ethernet Multicast
Another category of Ethernet addresses is multicast, used to transmit to a…
Ethernet Packet Format
Here is the format of a typical Ethernet packet (DIX specification); it…
10-Mbps Classic Ethernet
Originally, Ethernet consisted of a long piece of cable (possibly spliced by…
IETF and OSI
The Internet protocols discussed above are defined by the Internet Engineering Task…
Some Useful Utilities
There exists a great variety of useful programs for probing and diagnosing…
Content-Distribution Networks
Sites with an extremely large volume of content to distribute often turn…
Transport Communications Patterns
The two “classic” traffic patterns for Internet communication are these: • Interactive…


