The technology has become the standard LAN worldwide

Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years::The technology has become the standard LAN worldwide

  • GaMEChld@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

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

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.