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Explore Your Knowledge About Ethernet Protocols
Sameer Shinde
Ethernet is a technology that connects devices together in a local area network or LAN. Check how much you know about Ethernet through this quiz.
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Robert Metcalfe is known as the inventor of the Ethernet, which is a technology used for connecting devices.
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The Ethernet frame consists of a header that contains the source and destination MAC address.
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The start frame delimiter is a 1-byte field in the Ethernet frame that is always set to 10101011.
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10BASE2 is a form of Ethernet that uses coaxial cable terminated with BNC connectors to join two cables together.
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Carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) is used in early Ethernet for local area networking.
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One pair is used for transmitting data and another pair is used for receiving data.
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Fast Ethernet is widely used in networks along with fiber-optic cable.
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The Network layer is often used in networking. Routers perform more tasks in the Network layer of the OSI model.
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With the ability to incorporate new technologies, fast Ethernet was developed to compete with LAN protocols.
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The maximum data payload field carries is 1500 bytes whereas the minimum size is 40 bytes.
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The idle time gap between the transmission of frames to allow the network interfaces is known as the interframe gap.
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Mostly caused by collisions, a Runt frame is less than the minimum length of 64 bytes.
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