Re: Ethernet Frame (revisited for clarification)

2000-11-25 Thread Neil Desai
Thank you for the information. Neil ""Howard C. Berkowitz"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:p0500190eb64481a0727c@[63.216.127.98]... > THe LAN data link protocols have source and destination addresses. > WAN protocols usually have a destination address field only (see > below). > > >If y

Re: Ethernet Frame (revisited for clarification)

2000-11-24 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
THe LAN data link protocols have source and destination addresses. WAN protocols usually have a destination address field only (see below). >If you look at the frame format for any LAN protocol you will see where the >Destination and Source MAC address are. >If you look at >http://www.cisco.com

Re: Ethernet Frame (revisited for clarification)

2000-11-24 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
Of course it's correct, but it's not really relevant to the question, which was asking about addressing end-to-end. Presumably Host A and Host B are on LANs, so think the problem the rest of the way through.. Priscilla At 09:47 PM 11/23/00, John Green wrote: >this post(s) was posted a coup

Re: Ethernet Frame (revisited for clarification)

2000-11-24 Thread Neil Desai
If you look at the frame format for any LAN protocol you will see where the Destination and Source MAC address are. You will not see these in any of the WAN frame formats. I looked on CCO for more information to clarify this but was unsuccessful. What I did look at was the frame formats for differ

Ethernet Frame (revisited for clarification)

2000-11-23 Thread John Green
this post(s) was posted a couple of days back and just wanted some more list memebers to see if this correct before we take this as gospel truth. --- Neil Desai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To my knowledge serial links don't have a MAC > address. Sin